BLIND — the adjective, and the root of a verb for blinding. ⭐ The law protects him twice: you shall not put a stumbling block before the blind (Leviticus 19:14) and, said again with cursed in front of it, cursed is he who leads a blind man astray on the road (Deuteronomy 27:18, both already on these pages) — the stumbling block has become a road, and the sin one that only its victim cannot see. ⚠ The same root is what a bribe does: the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, ye’avver, at Exodus 23:8 and Deuteronomy 16:19 (already on these pages), so the blind man of 27:18 and the bribe of 27:25 are one root apart in the same list of curses. Jehovah claims the making of the blind at Exodus 4:11; a blind priest may not approach the altar (Leviticus 21:18, both already on these pages); and the curses of the next chapter make Israel grope at noon as the blind gropes in the dark (Deuteronomy 28:29, not yet on these pages). The TLB reads ‘takes advantage of a blind man’ at 27:18, with no road; the NWT 1984 ‘causes the blind to go astray in the way’, the NIV ‘leads the blind astray on the road’. → first discussed at Deut 27:18