(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

11 Her leaders pronounce (A)judgment for a bribe,
Her (B)priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
(C)Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity 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)bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.

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