oSee Num. 28:11
Isaiah 5:22-23
22Woe to those who are aheroes at drinking wine,and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23who bacquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!
Isaiah 29:21
21who by a word make a man out to be an offender,and clay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty plea dturn aside him who is in the right.
Joel 3:3
3and ehave cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.Joel 3:6
6You have sold fthe people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.Amos 5:11-12
11Therefore because you gtrample on ▼▼Or you tax
the poorand you exact taxes of grain from him,
iyou have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
jyou have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
12For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who ktake a bribe,
and lturn aside the needy min the gate.
Amos 8:4-6
4 Hear this, nyou who trample on the needyand bring the poor of the land to an end,
5saying, “When will othe new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And pthe Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make qthe ephah small and the shekel ▼ great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6that we may buy the poor for ssilver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Micah 3:2-3
2you twho hate the good and love the evil,uwho tear the skin from off my people ▼
▼Hebrew from off them
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 wwho eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
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