Amos 8:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

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  • Amos 2:6 : 6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; 40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; 41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. 2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. 3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need. 4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • Neh 5:8 : 8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
  • Joel 3:6 : 6 For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:4-5
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    85%

    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

    5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

  • Amos 2:6-7
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    76%

    6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Isa 3:14-15
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    72%

    14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

    15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • 2 Kgs 7:16
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    16 Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.

  • Amos 5:11
    72%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Lam 5:4
    72%

    4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

  • Ps 44:12
    72%

    12 You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

  • Neh 5:8
    71%

    8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

  • Joel 3:8
    71%

    8 And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

  • Neh 5:2-3
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    2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

    3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

  • Deut 2:6
    70%

    6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.

  • Isa 26:6
    70%

    6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19 And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • Zech 11:5
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    5 Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • Amos 4:1
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    1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

  • Joel 3:3-6
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    3 And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

    4 The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

    6 For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

  • 2 Kgs 7:1
    69%

    1 Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.

  • Rev 6:6
    69%

    6 And a voice came to my ears, from the middle of the four beasts, saying, A measure of grain for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny: and see that you do no damage to the oil and the wine.

  • Ruth 4:8
    69%

    8 So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

  • Zeph 1:11
    69%

    11 Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

    6 For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

  • Neh 10:31
    69%

    31 And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

  • Isa 52:3
    69%

    3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

  • Job 24:4
    68%

    4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

  • Mic 3:11
    68%

    11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

  • Ezek 7:12
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    12 The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

  • Prov 11:26
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    26 He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

  • Lam 5:6
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    6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

  • Mic 2:4
    68%

    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • Isa 55:2
    68%

    2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

  • Prov 1:13
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    13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;