On this perverse straining of the Law, comp. Amos 2:6. Their money-making propensity was carried to such unscrupulous lengths, that they even sold the refuse of corn, little better than mere chaff.
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Amos 8:6
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?