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

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words

“Do not accept a bribe,(A) for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

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11 Her leaders pronounce (A)judgment for a bribe,
Her (B)priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
(C)Is the Lord not in our midst?
Catastrophe will not come upon us.”

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11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(A)
    her priests teach for a price,(B)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(C)
Yet they look(D) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”(E)

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As for evil, both hands do it (A)well.
The leader asks for a (B)bribe, also the judge,
And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul;
So they plot it together.

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Both hands are skilled in doing evil;(A)
    the ruler demands gifts,
the judge accepts bribes,(B)
    the powerful dictate what they desire—
    they all conspire together.

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