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You must not take a bribe,(A) for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words[a] of the righteous.

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  1. 23:8 Or and subverts the cause

23 Your rulers are rebels,
friends of thieves.(A)
They all love a bribe
and chase after backhanders.(B)
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.(C)

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12 For I know that your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,(A) take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice(B) at the city gates.

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