Exodus 23:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds officials and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ You shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the testimony and the cause of the righteous.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Common English Bible

⁸ Don’t take a bribe, because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Neither shall you accept bribes, which blind even the prudent and subvert the words of the just.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Exodus 23:8 Cross References

Psalm 15:5

who do not lend money at interest and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 26:10

those in whose hands are evil devices and whose right hands are full of bribes.

Proverbs 15:27

Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked accept a concealed bribe to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of those who give it; wherever they turn they prosper.

Proverbs 19:4

Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes the wise foolish, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Isaiah 1:13

Bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation— I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 33:15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, who despise the gain of oppression, who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it, who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe,

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose 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, and I will restore it to you.”

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.