18Judges and officials you shall appoint for yourself in all your gates that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous justice.19You shall not pervert justice; you shall not recognize faces; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.20Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue, so that you may live and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.