Keluaran 23:8

23:8 “You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see ¹  and subverts the words of the righteous.

Yehezkiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ²  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ³  declares the sovereign Lord. ⁴ 

[23:8]  ¹ tn Heb “blinds the open-eyed.”

[22:12]  ² tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

[22:12]  ³ sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

[22:12]  ⁴ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.