Amos 8:6 Cross References - Brenton

⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

³⁹ And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall not serve thee with the servitude of a slave. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release: ⁴¹ and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony. ⁴² Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a common servant.

¹ And the cry of the people and their wives was great against their brethren the Jews. ² And some said, We are numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live. ³ And some said, As to our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge them, and we will take corn, and eat. ⁴ And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes: — our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged. ⁵ And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards belong to the nobles.

⁸ and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do ye sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.

³ and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.

⁶ and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts.

⁶ Thus saith the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

⁴ Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,