Amos 8:6
That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ut possideamus in argento egenos et pauperes pro calceamentis, et quisquilias frumenti vendamus ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοῦ κτᾶσθαι ἐν ἀργυρίῳ καὶ πτωχοὺς καὶ ταπεινὸν ἀντὶ ὑποδημάτων, καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς γενήματος ἐμπορευσόμεθα;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לִקְנ֤וֹת בַּכֶּ֨סֶף֙ דַּלִּ֔ים וְאֶבְי֖וֹן בַּעֲב֣וּר נַעֲלָ֑יִם וּמַפַּ֥ל בַּ֖ר נַשְׁבִּֽיר
Haydock's commentary
Shoes, for almost nothing. Thus they forced the poor to serve, or to sell their effects.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.