"You must appoint judges" or "You must choose judges"
# within all your city gates
Here "gates" represents a city or town. AT: "within all your towns" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
# they will be taken
This can be stated in active form. AT: "you will choose them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# judge the people with righteous judgment
"judge the people fairly"
# You must not take justice away by force
Moses speaks of justice as if it were a physical object that a strong person can violently pull away from a weak person. This can be stated in positive form. Your language might have one word that means "use force to take away." AT: "You must not be unfair when you judge" or "You must make just decisions" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublenegatives]])
Taking a bribe is spoken of as if the bribe were corrupting the people. AT: "for even a wise man who accepts a bribe will become blind, and even a righteous man who accepts a bribe will tell lies" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
A wise person who accepts a bribe so that he does not speak against something evil is spoken of as if he becomes blind. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
The nominal adjective "the wise" can be translated as an adjective. AT: "a wise person" or "wise people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
The nominal adjective "righteous" can be translated as an adjective. AT: "causes a righteous person to lie" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
justice is spoken of as a person who is walking. A person who is doing what is fair and just is spoken of as if he was following close behindjustice. AT: "do only what is fair" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
Receiving the land that God is giving to the people is spoken of as if the people are inheriting the land from God. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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