Exodus 23:8
ContextNET © | “You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see 1 and subverts the words of the righteous. |
NIV © | "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous. |
NASB © | "You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just. |
NLT © | "Take no bribes, for a bribe makes you ignore something that you clearly see. A bribe always hurts the cause of the person who is in the right. |
MSG © | "Don't take bribes. Bribes blind perfectly good eyes and twist the speech of good people. |
BBE © | Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. |
NRSV © | You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. |
NKJV © | "And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous. |
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NET © | “You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see 1 and subverts the words of the righteous. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “blinds the open-eyed.” |