(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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  1. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words

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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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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