complete verse (Amos 8:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Amos 8:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “We will sell wheat of poor value for much money. We will seek a poor person/an orphan and make (him) our slave if (he) is unable to pay back for a debt of shoes.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “We shall be able to buy the poor with silver
    and the destitute with a pair of sandals,
    and sell the wheat with chaff.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) (are) in-a-hurry that (you) can-sell wheat mixed with chaff, and can-buy a poor man/person who was-sold as a slave because he could- not -pay his loan, even-though his loan was just a pair of sandals.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt.
    Those who are needy and poor and who do not have money to buy things,
    you cause them to become your slaves
    by buying them with the small amount of silver with which you could buy a pair of sandals!” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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