Deuteronomy 16:18-20
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[18] Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. [19] You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. [20] That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land where Israel had lived in slavery before the exodus; although not named in Deuteronomy 16:18–20 itself, its memory underscores Israel’s need for just judges and impartial courts. God’s redeemed people were to reflect his righteousness in the land he gave them.
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Deuteronomy 16:18-20 mentions Egypt.
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