We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”

好用银子买贫寒人，用一双鞋换穷乏人，将坏了的麦子卖给人。”

用银子买贫寒人，以一双鞋换贫穷人，把坏的谷物卖给人。”

用银子买贫寒人，以一双鞋换贫穷人，把坏的谷物卖给人。”

你们用银子买贫民，以一双鞋买穷人为奴，售卖掺了糠秕的麦子。

我们用银子买穷人，用一双鞋换取穷乏人；连麦碎也卖掉。”

好用銀子買貧寒人，用一雙鞋換窮乏人，將壞了的麥子賣給人。

用銀子買貧寒人，以一雙鞋換貧窮人，把壞的穀物賣給人。」

用銀子買貧寒人，以一雙鞋換貧窮人，把壞的穀物賣給人。」

你們用銀子買貧民，以一雙鞋買窮人為奴，售賣摻了糠秕的麥子。

我們用銀子買窮人，用一雙鞋換取窮乏人；連麥碎也賣掉。”

好用銀子收買貧寒人，用一雙鞋換得窮苦人，將棄置為垃圾的麥子賣給人？』

以銀購窮乏、以屨易貧民、以劣麥出售、

以金市窮民、以履易貧者、以朽穀鬻於人。

以金市貧民、以雙履之值市窮者、以朽穀鬻於人、

buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

You buy poor people to make slaves out of them. You buy those who are in need for a mere pair of sandals. You even sell the worthless parts of your wheat.

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

And you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”

So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;[ yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

This is what the LORD says:“ Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.

You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.

“‘ If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

I said to them,“ To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.There were those who said,“ With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”There were others who said,“ We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”Then there were those who said,“ We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.