Is the amount paid by the farmer in exchange for reducing the hours of water usage considered a bribe and unlawful?
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This money is a bribe, ill-gotten gain, and a betrayal of the trust of the job. It is absolutely forbidden to accept it. What has been taken from it must be repented for. Neither a low salary nor the fact that the giver offered it justifies it.
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