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12 So Amaziah kept saying to Amos, “Get out of here, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Live[a] there and prophesy there. 13 Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because it’s the king’s sanctuary and a temple of the kingdom.”

14 Amos replied in answer to Amaziah,

“I am no prophet,
    nor am I a prophet’s son,
for I have been shepherding
    and picking the fruit of[b] sycamore[c] trees.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:12 Lit. Eat
  2. Amos 7:14 The Heb. lacks the fruit of
  3. Amos 7:14 The sycamore fruit tree native to Israel bears figs