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

(B)You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the [b]feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The Sabbath and the Land

10 “Now (C)you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words
  2. Exodus 23:9 Lit soul

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

“Do not oppress a foreigner;(B) you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

Sabbath Laws

10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops,

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