"and do not show favoritism": Do not say "This man is rich; this man is poor."
"and do not take a bribe": It goes without saying (do not take it) to exculpate the guilty and to inculpate the innocent; but even to exculpate the innocent and inculpate the guilty. "for a bribe blinds the eyes of the sages": and it goes without saying, the eyes of fools. "and distorts the words of the righteous": and it goes without saying, the word of the wicked.
"for a bribe blinds": He does not leave the world until he errs in his ruling, calling the clean unclean, and the unclean clean; the forbidden, permitted and the permitted, forbidden. "and distorts the words of the righteous": He does not leave the world until he does not know what is being said.