Amos 2:6-8
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A message to the people in Israel
6 The Lord says, ‘The people in Israel have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them.
They sold people that did not do wrong things. They sold them for silver. And they sold poor people for only the price of shoes. 7 They are not kind to poor people and they do not help them. A father and his son have sex with the same woman. They do not respect the holy way that I want them to live. 8 When they lend money to poor people, they take the poor people's clothes.[a] They do not return the clothes each night, as they should do. Instead they sleep on the clothes themselves. They do that at the places where they worship their gods. The rich people take money from poor people. They use that money to buy wine for themselves. Then they drink the wine in the temples of their gods.
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- 2:8 When a poor person gave clothes to a rich person, the poor person was giving a promise. He was promising to pay money back to the rich person. God had said this to rich people about those poor people's clothes: ‘Do not keep the clothes at night. Give the clothes back to the poor people for the nights. Then they will not be cold.’
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