Commentary for Ketubot 210:8

ת"ר (שמות כג, ח) ושוחד לא תקח אינו צריך לומר שוחד ממון אלא אפילו שוחד דברים נמי אסור מדלא כתיב בצע לא תקח היכי דמי שוחד דברים

Our Rabbis taught: “And you shall not take a bribe”; there was no need to speak of [the prohibition of taking] a bribe of money, but rather even a bribe of actions is also forbidden, for Scripture does not write, “And you shall not take a gain.” What is the case of “a bribe of words’?

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