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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

11 Her heads pronounce (A)judgment for a bribe,
And her (B)priests instruct for a price,
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on Yahweh saying,
(C)Is not Yahweh in our midst?
Evil will not come upon us.”

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Concerning evil, both hands do it (A)well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a (B)payment,
And a great man speaks the craving of his soul;
So they weave it together.

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