"Go to Bethel, and sin; To Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days,
"Your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days ..." To interpret this as it stands in our version, "Amos exaggerates in order to emphasize the beloved fallacy"[17] that the "more" they served "god" (!) the better things would be for them.  The tithes were due once a year, but in this place Amos seems to say, "If you tithed your possessions every three days" it would be only an increase in your sins!  Why? nothing connected with that worship at either Gilgal or Bethel had any genuine connection whatever with the true worship of the Lord.  The New English Bible, of course, translates this: