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Amos 8:3-5
Evangelical Heritage Version

3 The singing women of the palace[a] will wail on that day, declares the Lord God. Many corpses—all over! Silence!”

Fraud and Hypocrisy on Holy Days

4 Listen to this, you who trample on the needy
        to wipe out the oppressed from the land,
5 who say, “When will the New Moon be over so that we can sell grain?
    When will the Sabbath end so that we can open the grain bins?
    Then we will make the bushel[b] smaller and make the shekel weight heavier.[c]
    We will cheat with dishonest scales.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or the songs of the temple
  2. Amos 8:5 Literally the ephah
  3. Amos 8:5 Merchants cheated by measuring out the grain they were selling with an undersized bushel and weighing the silver they received with an overweight shekel.
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