Amos 8:6 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'

³⁹ And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant. ⁴⁰ As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. ⁴² For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen.

¹ Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. ² For there were that said: 'We, our sons and our daughters, are many; let us get for them corn, that we may eat and live.' ³ Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.' ⁴ There were also that said: 'We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.'

⁸ And I said unto them: 'We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that sold themselves unto the heathen; and would ye nevertheless sell your brethren, and should they sell themselves unto us?' Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

³ (4:3) And they have cast lots for My people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.

⁶ (4:6) the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border;

⁶ Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

⁴ Hear this, O ye that would swallow the needy, and destroy the poor of the land,