buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
NMVThat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yes], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
OJBThat we may buy the poor for kesef, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yea, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?
T4TYou 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 [DOU] 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!