Exodus 23:8 "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

English Standard Version
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

King James Bible
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.

International Standard Version
You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Young's Literal Translation
And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regards not persons, nor takes reward:

Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 12:3
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Psalm 15:5
He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.

Proverbs 17:8
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: wherever it turns, it prospers.

Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a gift destroys the heart.

Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

23:1-9 In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Every thing in it is suited to the desired and avowed object, the worship of one only God, and the separation of Israel from the pagan world. Neither parties, friends, witnesses, nor common opinions, must move us to lessen great faults, to aggravate small ones, excuse offenders, accuse the innocent, or misrepresent any thing.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. countenance—adorn, embellish—thou shalt not varnish the cause even of a poor man to give it a better coloring than it merits.

Exodus 23:7

Exodus 23:9

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