Deuteronomy 16:19

“But you shall select excellent men out of all the people, those who fear God, men of truth, those who hate greedy gain; and you shall place these men over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

“You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a case so as to turn aside after the masses in order to cause justice to be turned aside;

nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his case.

“And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

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

‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear 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.’

“For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.

“You shall not pervert the justice due a sojourner or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.

And it happened when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel.

But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after greedy gain and took bribes and caused justice to turn aside.

“Here I am; bear witness against me before Yahweh and His anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? I will restore it to you.”

And he appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, in each city.

He does not put out his money at interest, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, But he who hates gifts of bribery will live.

To show partiality to the wicked is not good, Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.

Lest he drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

For oppression gives a wise man over to madness, And a bribe destroys the heart.

“In you they have taken bribes for the purpose of shedding blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.