Amos 8:6 Cross References

Amos 8:6

6: And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Amos 2:6

  1. This is what the LORD says: "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They have perverted justice by selling honest people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.

Leviticus 25:39

  1. "If any of your Israelite relatives go bankrupt and sell themselves to you, do not treat them as slaves.
  2. Treat them instead as hired servants or as resident foreigners who live with you, and they will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee.
  3. At that time they and their children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clan and ancestral property.
  4. The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves.

Nehemiah 5:8

  1. At the meeting I said to them, "The rest of us are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?" And they had nothing to say in their defense.

Joel 3:6

  1. You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, who took them far from their homeland.

Joel 3:3

  1. They cast lots to decide which of my people would be their slaves. They traded young boys for prostitutes and little girls for enough wine to get drunk.

Nehemiah 5:1

  1. About this time some of the men and their wives raised a cry of protest against their fellow Jews.
  2. They were saying, "We have such large families. We need more money just so we can buy the food we need to survive."
  3. Others said, "We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine."
  4. And others said, "We have already borrowed to the limit on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.
  5. We belong to the same family, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others."

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
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