Verse 8
Exodus 23:8
Geneva Bible
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Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/שֹׁ֖חַד לֹ֣א תִקָּ֑ח כִּ֤י הַ/שֹּׁ֨חַד֙ יְעַוֵּ֣ר פִּקְחִ֔ים וִֽ/יסַלֵּ֖ף דִּבְרֵ֥י צַדִּיקִֽים
English Translation
And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.
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Chapter 23 Context
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Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a fal...
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many...
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3
Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.
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4
If thou meete thine enemies oxe, or his asse going astray, thou shalt bring him to him againe.
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5
If thou see thine enemies asse lying vnder his burden, wilt thou cease to helpe him? thou shalt help...
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6
Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.
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7
Thou shalt keepe thee farre from a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous:...
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8
Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.
9
Thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for ye knowe the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers...
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10
Moreouer, sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy land, and gather the fruites thereof,
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11
But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eat, an...
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12
Sixe dayes thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest, that thine oxe, and thin...
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13
And ye shall take heede to all things that I haue sayde vnto you: and ye shall make no mention of th...
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14
Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.
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15
Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seue dayes, as I co...
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16
The feast also of the haruest of the first fruites of thy labours, which thou hast sowen in the fiel...
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17
These three times in the yeere shall all thy men children appeare before the Lord Iehouah.
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18
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauened bread: neyther shall the fatte of my sa...
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19
The first of the first fruites of thy lande thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God (Elo...
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20
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which...
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21
Beware of him, and heare his voyce, and prouoke him not: for he will not spare your misdeedes, becau...
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22
But if thou hearken vnto his voyce, and do all that I speake, the I wil be an enemie vnto thine enem...
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23
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee vnto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Per...
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24
Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, neither serue them, nor doe after the workes of them: but vt...
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25
For ye shall serue the Lord your God (Elohim), and he shall blesse thy bread and thy water, and I wi...
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26
There shall none cast their fruite nor be baren in thy lande: the number of thy dayes will I fulfill...
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27
I will send my feare before thee, and will destroy all the people among whome thou shalt go: and I w...
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28
And I will sende hornets before thee, which shall driue out the Hiuites, the Canaanites, and the Hit...
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29
I will not cast them out from thy face in one yeere, least the land grow to a wildernes: and the bea...
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30
By litle and litle I will driue them out from thy face, vntill thou increase, and inherite the lande...
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31
And I will make thy coastes from the red sea vnto the sea of the Philistims, and from the desert vnt...
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32
Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods:
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33
Neither shall they dwell in thy lande, least they make thee sinne against me: for if thou serue thei...
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