Saying, When will the [a]new month be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, and make [b]the Ephah small and the shekel great, and falsify the weights by deceit?

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.

The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely, I will never forget any of their works.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:5 When the dearth was once come they were so greedy of gain, that they thought the holy day to be an hindrance unto them.
  2. Amos 8:5 That is, the measure small, and the price great.

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