Amos 8
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Amos 8:4-7

4Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

5saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,

6buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

7The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.

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