Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
KJV
dicentes : Quando transibit mensis, et venundabimus merces ? et sabbatum, et aperiemus frumentum, ut imminuamus mensuram, et augeamus siclum, et supponamus stateras dolosas,
Vulgate
λέγοντες Πότε διελεύσεται ὁ μὴν καὶ ἐμπολήσομεν, καὶ τὰ σάββατα καὶ ἀνοίξομεν θησαυρὸν τοῦ ποιῆσαι μικρὸν μέτρον, καὶ τοῦ μεγαλῦναι στάθμιον καὶ ποιῆσαι ζυγὸν ἄδικον,
LXX
saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
ASV
לֵ/אמֹ֗ר מָתַ֞י יַעֲבֹ֤ר הַ/חֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ וְ/נַשְׁבִּ֣ירָה שֶּׁ֔בֶר וְ/הַ/שַּׁבָּ֖ת וְ/נִפְתְּחָה בָּ֑ר לְ/הַקְטִ֤ין אֵיפָה֙ וּ/לְ/הַגְדִּ֣יל שֶׁ֔קֶל וּ/לְ/עַוֵּ֖ת מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2269The fifth commandment forbids doing anything with the intention of indirectly bringing about a person's death. the moral law prohibits exposing someone to mortal danger without grave reason, as well as refusing assistance to a person in danger. The acceptance by human society of murderous famines, without efforts to remedy them, is a scandalous injustice and a grave offense. Th…
§2409Even if it does not contradict the provisions of civil law, any form of unjustly taking and keeping the property of others is against the seventh commandment: thus, deliberate retention of goods lent or of objects lost; business fraud; paying unjust wages; forcing up prices by taking advantage of the ignorance or hardship of another.191 The following are also morally illicit: s…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 13:12 — Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
- 1Thess 4:6 — That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
- 2Kgs 4:23 — And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
- Deut 25:13 — Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- Deut 25:13 — Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- Deut 25:16 — For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
- Exod 20:8 — Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Ezek 45:10 — Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Hos 2:11 — I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
- Hos 12:7 — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- Hos 12:7 — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- Isa 1:13 — Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
- Lev 19:36 — Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Mic 6:10 — Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
- Mic 6:10 — Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
- Neh 13:15 — In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Je
- Num 10:10 — Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offeri
- Prov 11:1 — A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- Prov 11:1 — A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- Prov 16:11 — A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- Prov 20:23 — Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
- Prov 20:23 — Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
- Ps 81:3 — Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
- Zech 5:6 — And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.