Exodus 23:8
8 aAnd you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.Deuteronomy 16:18-19
Justice
18“You shall appoint bjudges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 cYou shall not pervert justice. dYou shall not show partiality, eand you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.1 Samuel 8:3
3Yet his sons did not walk in his ways fbut turned aside after gain. gThey took bribes and perverted justice.1 Samuel 12:3-4
3Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before hhis anointed. iWhose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks Testify against me
and I will restore it to you.” 4They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.” Psalms 26:9-10
9 kDo not sweep my soul away with sinners,nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of lbribes.
Isaiah 33:15
15 mHe who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
nand shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
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