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Amos 8:4-6
The Deceitful Scales
The End and the Deceitful Scales · Amos 8
Story guide: The scale, silver, sandals, and grain sweepings accompany Amos's economic indictment.
Open this scene in the reader →4Hear this, you who trample the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale—making the ephah small and the shekel large, and distorting deceitful scales?”
6to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings of the grain.
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