Keluaran 23:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Suap janganlah kauterima, sebab suap membuat buta mata orang-orang yang melihat dan memutarbalikkan perkara orang-orang yang benar.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Suap janganlah kauterima, sebab suap membuat buta mata orang-orang yang melihat dan memutarbalikkan perkara orang-orang yang benar.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi jangan kamu menerima pemberian, karena pemberian itu membutakan mata orang yang melihat dan mendolak-dalikkan perkataan orang yang benar.

Contextual Overview

¹ Thou shalt not haue to do with any false report, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be an vnrighteous witnesse. ² Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill, neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number, for to peruert iudgement. ³ Neither shalt thou esteeme a poore man in his cause. ⁴ If thou meete thyne enemies oxe or asse goyng astray, thou shalt bryng them to him agayne. ⁵ If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee sincke vnder his burthen, thou shalt not passe by and let him alone, but shalt helpe hym to lyft hym vp agayne. ⁶ Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite. ⁷ Kepe thee farre from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous see thou slay not: for I wyll not iustifie the wicked. ⁸ Thou shalt take no gyftes: for gyftes blinde the seyng, and peruert the wordes of the righteous. ⁹ Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger: for ye know the heart of a straunger, seyng ye were straungers in the lande of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt take: Deuteronomy 16:19, 1 Samuel 8:3, 1 Samuel 12:3, Psalms 26:10, Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 17:8, Proverbs 17:23, Proverbs 19:4, Ecclesiastes 7:7, Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 5:23, Ezekiel 22:12, Hosea 4:18, Amos 5:12, Micah 7:3

the wise: Heb. the seeing

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:21 - hating Leviticus 19:15 - General Deuteronomy 1:16 - Hear Deuteronomy 27:19 - General Deuteronomy 27:25 - General 2 Samuel 16:4 - Behold 2 Chronicles 19:7 - taking of gifts Psalms 15:5 - nor taketh Proverbs 28:21 - respect Isaiah 1:23 - every Acts 24:26 - hoped 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)

Genesis 23:2
And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.

Genesis 23:3
And Abraham stoode vp fro the sight of his corse, and talked with the sonnes of Heth, saying:

Genesis 23:4
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.

Genesis 25:9
And his sonnes Isahac and Ismael buryed hym in the double caue in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Soar the Hethite, before Mamre.

1 Kings 2:17
And he said: Speake I pray thee, vnto Solomo the king (for he wil not say thee nay) that he geue me Abisag the Sunamite to wyfe.

Hebrews 7:26
For such an hye priest became vs, whiche [is] holy, harmelesse, vndefyled, seperate from sinners, and made hygher then heauens:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt take no gift,.... Of the persons whose cause is to be tried in a court of judicature before judges; neither of those on the one side nor on the other, neither before the trial nor after, neither by words, by a promise, nor by facts, by actually receiving money; and not even to judge truly, as Jarchi observes, neither to clear the innocent nor to condemn the guilty: a gift was not to be taken on any consideration whatever:

for the gift blindeth the wise; or the "seeing" a; the open ones, who used to have both their eyes and their ears open, and attentive to the cause before them; and yet a gift so blinds them, by casting such a mist before them, that they are inattentive to the true merits of the cause, and their affections and judgments are to be carried away in favour of those that have bribed them, as to pass a wrong sentence:

and perverteth the words of the righteous; either the sentences of righteous judges, as they ought to be, but a gift perverts their judgment, and they give a wrong decree; or the causes of the righteous that are brought before those are perverted by giving the cause to their adversaries, who are wicked men.

a פקחים "videntes", Pagninus, Vatablus, Cartwright; "apertos", Montanus, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Four precepts evidently addressed to those in authority as judges:

(a) To do justice to the poor. ComparingExodus 23:6; Exodus 23:6 with Exodus 23:3, it was the part of the judge to defend the poor against the oppression of the rich, and the part of the witness to take care lest his feelings of natural pity should tempt him to falsify evidence.

(b) To be cautious of inflicting capital punishment on one whose guilt was not clearly proved. A doubtful case was rather to be left to God Himself, who would “not justify the wicked,” nor suffer him to go unpunished though he might be acquitted by an earthly tribunal. Exodus 23:7.

(c) To take no bribe or present which might in any way pervert judgment Exodus 23:8; compare Num 16:15; 1 Samuel 12:3; Acts 26:26.

(d) To vindicate the rights of the stranger Exodus 23:9 - rather, the foreigner. (Exodus 20:10 note.) This verse is a repetition of Exodus 22:21, but the precept is there addressed to the people at large, while it is here addressed to the judges in reference to their official duties. The caution was perpetually necessary. Compare Ezekiel 22:7; Malachi 3:5. The word rendered “heart” is more strictly “soul,” and would be better represented here by feelings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 23:8. Thou shalt take no gift — A strong ordinance against selling justice, which has been the disgrace and ruin of every state where it has been practised. In the excellent charter of British liberties called Magna Charta, there is one article expressly on this head: Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus, rectum aut justitiam. - Art. xxxiii. "To none will we sell, to none will we deny or defer, right or justice." This was the more necessary in those early and corrupt times, as he who had most money, and gave the largest presents (called then oblata) to the king or queen, was sure to gain his cause in the king's court; whether he had right and justice on his side or not.