That we may buy — They would have new moons and sabbaths over, that they might go to market to buy the poor. And when these poor owed but for a very little commodity, as suppose a pair of shoes, these merciless men would take the advantage against them, and make them sell themselves to pay the debt. The refuse — This was another kind of oppression, corrupted wares, sold to those that were necessitous.
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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?