Amos 8:6

A Basket Of Ripe Fruit

⁵ saying,
“When will the new moon be over,
So that we may sell grain,
And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market,
To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger,
And to cheat with dishonest scales,
⁶ So as to buy the helpless for money
And the needy for a pair of sandals,
And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”
⁷ The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
“Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.

Let Us

Amos

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Israel and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they sell the righteous for money
And the needy for a pair of sandals.

Leviticus 25:39-42

‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

Nehemiah 5:8

I said to them, “We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.

Joel 3:3

“They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Joel 3:6

and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,