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

Contemporary English Version
Don't accept bribes. Judges are blinded and justice is twisted by bribes.

New American Bible
Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the just.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

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

thou shalt take

Deuteronomy 16:19 And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 12:3 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

Psalm 26:10 In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.

Proverbs 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.

Proverbs 17:8,23 The expectation of him that expecteth is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely. . . .

Proverbs 19:4 Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.

Ecclesiastes 7:7 Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.

Isaiah 1:13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

Isaiah 5:23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Ezekiel 22:12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Hosea 4:18 Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.

Amos 5:12 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

the wise.