Amos 8:6
Parallel Translations


NASB: 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?" (NASB ©1995)
GWT: We can buy the poor with money and the needy for a pair of sandals. We can sell the husks mixed in with the wheat." (GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
ASV: that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
BBE: Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
DBY: that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
JPS: That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'
WBS: That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?
WEB: that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
YLT: To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

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