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(A)And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and [a]subverts the cause of the [b]just.

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  1. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words
  2. Exodus 23:8 Or righteous

19 (A)You shall not distort justice; (B)you shall not [a]be partial, and (C)you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

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  1. Deuteronomy 16:19 Lit regard persons

Here I am; bear witness against me before Yahweh and (A)His anointed. (B)Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or (C)from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? I will restore it to you.”

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15 He who (A)walks righteously and speaks uprightly;
He who rejects greedy gain of [a]oppression,
And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;
He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed
And (B)shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

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  1. Isaiah 33:15 Lit oppressions