We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, ¹  a pair of sandals ²  for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!” ³ 

biblegateway Amo 8:6

So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the wheat husks!"

We can buy the poor with money and the needy for a pair of sandals. We can sell the husks mixed in with the wheat."

biblegateway Amo 8:6

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

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"

bibleoremus Amo 8:6

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

and selling the refuse of the wheat; that we may buy the weak for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals?”

biblegateway Amo 8:6

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals––Even sell the bad wheat?"

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

biblegateway Amo 8:6

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, ¹  a pair of sandals ²  for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!” ³ 

¹ tn Heb “to buy the poor for silver.”

¹ sn The expression trade silver for the poor refers to the slave trade.

² tn See the note on the word “sandals” in 2:6.

³ tn Heb “The chaff of the grain we will sell.”