Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 23:8:

• Kupsabiny: “A person should not accept a bribe because that makes people blind so they do not do truth/right and it brings suffering to the innocent.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Do not take bribes for the bribe makes you blind and twists the words of the righteous.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘You (plur.) should- not -accept a bribe, for a bribe makes- people -blind to the truth, and it will-hurt/harm justice for the innocent ones.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “‘If a man coaxes you (pl.) with money and so says for you to make false talk to help him, you can’t/mustn’t listen/consent to him. For this practice messes up good people’s talk and so it causes the people who straighten disputes to destroy upright people.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “A man, he must not you [mouth] buy, because bribe, they who see, it will injure them eye, and word of they who be good, it will turn it into evil.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)