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

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  1. Exodus 23:8 Or distorts the words
  2. Exodus 23:8 Or righteous

23 A wicked man receives a (A)bribe from the bosom
To (B)thrust aside the paths of justice.

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For (A)oppression gives a wise man over to madness,
And a (B)bribe [a]destroys the heart.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:7 Lit perishes