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Amos 5:11-13
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Amos 5:11-13
Orthodox Jewish Bible
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat; ye have built batim (houses) of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant kramim (vineyards), but ye shall not drink yayin of them.
12 For I have da’as of your manifold peysha’im and your mighty chattaim (sins); they afflict the tzaddik, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the sha’ar (gate, court) from their right.
13 Therefore the maskil (prudent) shall keep silence in such times; for it is an evil time.
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