Amos 8
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Amos 8:4-7

4Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land

5saying: ‘When will the New Moon be over, so we may sell grain? Or Shabbat, so we may open the wheat market? —Let’s reduce the ephah measure and increase the shekel, cheat with deceitful balances,

6buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals! We’ll even sell the refuse of the grain!’”

7Adonai swore by the Pride of Jacob: “Never will I forget all their deeds!

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