Deuteronomy 16:19

¹⁷ Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

¹⁸ You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

²⁰ Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

²¹ Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
KJV: Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
WEB: You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
ASV: Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
DARBY: Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
BLB: You shall not twist justice; you shall not show partiality nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

ÅB: Du skal ikke bøye retten, du skal ikke gjøre forskjell på folk og ikke ta imot gaver; for gaven blinder vismenns øyne og forvender de rettferdiges sak.
OTB: Forvri ikke rettferdigheten eller vis partiskhet. Ikke ta imot bestikkelser, for en bestikkelse blender de vises øyne og forvrenger de rettferdiges ord.
B1930: Du skal ikke bøie retten, du skal ikke gjøre forskjell på folk og ikke ta imot gaver; for gaven blinder vismenns øine og forvender de rettferdiges sak.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Leviticus 19:15
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
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Exodus 23:2
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
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Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man takes a covert bribe to subvert the course of justice.
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Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
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Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
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Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
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