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19 You shall not subvert[a] justice; you shall not show partiality;[b] and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind the eyes of the wise and misrepresents the words of the righteous. 20 Justice, only justice[c] you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. 21 You shall not plant for yourselves[d] an Asherah pole[e] beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:19 Or “distort/pervert”
  2. Deuteronomy 16:19 Literally “recognize faces”
  3. Deuteronomy 16:20 Literally “justice justice”
  4. Deuteronomy 16:21 Hebrew “for/to you” but with collective meaning
  5. Deuteronomy 16:21 Literally “an Asherah of any wood/tree”
  6. Deuteronomy 16:21 Hebrew “for/to you” but with collective meaning