Deuteronomy 25:4

Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

In Context

3He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee.

5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a

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Cross References

Proverbs 12:10A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Hosea 10:11And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves to tread out [the grain]. But I have passed over upon her fair neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah shall plow. Jacob shall break his clods.

1 Timothy 5:17Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:2-5

Stripes Not to Exceed Forty. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then… Read the whole commentary →

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