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| Again we see the "three transgressions" meaning they repeatedly despised the law of the LORD and did not [[keep the commandments]].
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| V. 7 They sold the [[righteous]] for silver and the poor for shoes but how did Israel take [[care]] of the poor? Were they more than [[slothful]]? How did the way of the meek or [[humble]]<Ref><עֲנָוִ֖ים> AyinNunVavYodMem  {{06035}}</Ref> perverted<Ref name="YodTetHey">Amos uses YodTetHey  variation instead of  NunTetHey in verses 7 and 8 translated ''turn aside'' and  ''laying down'' on a cloth with a pledge.<Br>{{05186}}</Ref> so that a man and his father where going into the same maid<Ref><הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔ה> HeyNunAyinReishHey <Br>{{05291}}</Ref>? Did they practice [[pure Religion]] or a [[public religion]]? 
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| V. 8 And what do they mean when they say "lay themselves down<Ref name="YodTetHey"></Ref>  upon clothes laid to pledge by every [[altars|altar]], and they drink the wine of the condemned<Ref><עֲנוּשִׁים֙> AyinNunVavShinYodMem instead of merely  AyinNunShin<Br>{{06064}}</Ref> in the house of their [[gods|god]]. What was the purpose of their [[altars]] of [[clay and stone]]?
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| God had "brought you up from the land of [[Egypt]]" and told them to never go back that way again. We should not set up systems that are like the [[sin of Sodom]] nor neglect the systems of [[Pure Religion]] which strengthen society.
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| The people will degenerate and become weak as a people because they become accustomed to [[Polybius|living at the expense of others]]. They ''set a net for their brothers''<Ref>[[Micah 7]]:2  The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.</Ref> with having one [[One purse]] what should have been for their [[welfare]] becomes a [[snare]].  Other men who call themselves [[benefactors]] become judges of what is good and evil.
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| We no longer have the right to choose how to help the poor because we went the way of the [[Corban]] desiring the [[wages of unrighteousness]] in the [[welfare]] state of [[force]], [[fear]], and [[fealty]].
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| People have lost their freedom because they desired to live by the [[covetous practices]] of [[force]], [[fear]], and [[fealty]] instead of the [[perfect law of liberty]] through a ''brotherly covenant''.
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| The [[merchants of men]] have made the people human resources, [[merchandise]], where you [[legal title|own nothing]].
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| "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish 
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1  ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

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But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

== transgressions of Judah ==

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law<Ref name="torat"> We see this form of ''[[Torah#The_Law_of_faith|Torat]]'' translated ''law'' in the sense of a [[sacrifice]] in true [[faith]] rather than the [[force]] used by [[Pharaoh]], [[Nimrod]], and the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and of course their modern counter parts [[FDR]] and [[LBJ]] accepted by the [[Modern Church]] excusing their [[covetous practices]]. </Ref> of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

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That pant<Ref>הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֤ים  HeyShinAlefPieYodMem <br>{{07602}}</Ref> after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.

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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

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Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

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And I raised up of your sons for [[prophets]], and of your young men for [[Nazareth|Nazarites]]. Is it not even thus, O ye children of [[Israel]]? saith the LORD.

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But ye gave the [[Nazarite]]s wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

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Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

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And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

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