Amos 2:6

6 Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Israel,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they asell the righteous bfor silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals—

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Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

Joel 3:3
and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

Joel 3:6
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.

Revelation 18:13
cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.

Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”


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