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Deuteronomy 16:19 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Deuteronomy 16:19

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17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you.

18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

19 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.

20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the LORD your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

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Exodus 23:8

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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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Leviticus 19:15

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"“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness."

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Exodus 23:2

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"“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice."

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Deuteronomy 1:17

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"You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”"

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Sirach 7:6

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"Don’t seek to be a judge, lest you not be able to take away iniquities, lest perhaps you fear the person of a mighty man, and lay a stumbling block in the way of your uprightness."

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Leviticus 19:35

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"“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity."

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Deuteronomy 16:1

"Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night."

Deuteronomy 16:2

"You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there."

Deuteronomy 16:3

"You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life."

Deuteronomy 16:4

"No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning."

Deuteronomy 16:5

"You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;"

Deuteronomy 16:6

"but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt."

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