Deuteronomy 25:4

Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

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Cross References

Proverbs 12:10An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Hosea 10:11And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

1 Timothy 5:17Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and 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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