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“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
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Verse 8. Bribes, which naturally induce the receiver to shew favour, and therefore cannot be too carefully avoided. The Athenians put to death those who bribed the judges, and required the latter to restore ten-fold. Calmet.
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