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17 Each of you is to bring a gift that is proportionate to how much the Lord, your God, has blessed you.

18 Justice.[a]Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town that the Lord, your God, gives you. They are to judge the people fairly. 19 Do not pervert justice nor show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:18 The institutions that used to protect the life of Israel as a nation have now disappeared, but the spirit with which Deuteronomy tries to inspire them has not lost any of its value: the people of God will always be obligated to live the covenant in the setting of a concrete human society.