Amos 8:5 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 8:5

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

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ASV

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;

KJV

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?

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?.... The first day of every month, on which it was forbid to sell any thing, or do any worldly business, being appointed and used for religious service; see 2Ki 4:23; and which these carnal earthly minded men were weary of, and wanted to have over, that they might be selling their grain, and getting money, which they preferred to the worship of God.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

When will the new moon be gone? - They kept their festivals, though weary and impatient for their close. They kept sabbath and festival with their bodies, not with their minds. The Psalmist said, “When shall I come to appear before the presencc of God?” Psa 42:2. These said, perhaps in their hearts only which God reads to them, “when will this service be over, that we may be our own masters again?” They loathed the rest of the sabbath, because they had, thereon, to rest from their frauds.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֵאמֹ֗ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
מָתַ֞י	ma.Tai	when?	H4970 →
יַעֲבֹ֤ר	ya.'a.Vor	will it pass	H5674 →
הַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙	ha.Cho.desh	the new moon	H2320 →
וְנַשְׁבִּ֣ירָה	ve.nash.Bi.rah	so we may sell grain	H7666 →
שֶּׁ֔בֶר	She.ver	grain	H7668 →
וְהַשַּׁבָּ֖ת	ve.hash.sha.Bat	and the sabbath	H7676 →
וְנִפְתְּחָה־	ve.nif.te.chah-	so we may open	H6605 →
בָּ֑ר	Bar	grain	H1250 →
לְהַקְטִ֤ין	le.hak.Tin	to make small	H6994 →
אֵיפָה֙	'ei.Fah	an ephah	H374 →
וּלְהַגְדִּ֣יל	u.le.hag.Dil	and to make great	H1431 →
שֶׁ֔קֶל	She.kel	a shekel	H8255 →
וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת	u.le.'a.Vet	and to falsify	H5791 →
מֹאזְנֵ֥י	moz.Nei	balances of	H3976 →
מִרְמָֽה׃	mir.Mah	deceit	H4820 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hosea 12:7
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
leads to
- Proverbs 11:1
  Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Micah 6:10–11
  Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- Amos 8:5–6
  asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us…
- John 2:16
  To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
- Ezekiel 16:3
  and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a…
Through
Leviticus 19:36
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
leads to
- Exodus 20:2
  “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Deuteronomy 25:13–15
  You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
- Proverbs 20:10
  Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.

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