Amos 8:6

The Basket of Summer Fruit

5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. 6Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!” 7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

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Berean Standard Bible
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
American Standard Version (1901)
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Bible in Basic English
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.
Free Bible Version
You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.
Geneva Bible 1599
That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.
King James (Authorized) Version
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Translation for Translators
You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt. Those who are needy and poor [DOU] and who do not have money to buy things, you cause them to become your slaves by buying them with the small amount of silver with which you could buy a pair of sandals!
Unlocked Literal Bible
This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.”
Noah Webster Bible
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?
World English Bible
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
Young's Literal Translation
To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.