(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

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

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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

19 Do not pervert justice(A) or show partiality.(B) Do not accept a bribe,(C) for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent.

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Here I am; bear witness against me before the Lord 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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Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the Lord and his anointed.(A) Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey(B) have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe(C) to make me shut my eyes? If I have done(D) any of these things, I will make it right.”(E)

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15 He who (A)walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,
He who rejects [a]unjust gain
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 gain of extortioners

15 Those who walk righteously(A)
    and speak what is right,(B)
who reject gain from extortion(C)
    and keep their hands from accepting bribes,(D)
who stop their ears against plots of murder
    and shut their eyes(E) against contemplating evil—

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