Deuteronomy 25:4

You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes.

5When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.

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Cross References

Proverbs 12:10The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

Hosea 10:11Ephraim is a heifer that has been taught to love treading out the grain, but I passed over the beauty of her neck. I will rise over Ephraim. Judah will plough; Jacob will break up the soil for himself.

1 Timothy 5:17Let priests who lead well be held worthy of twice the honor, especially those who labor in the Word and in doctrine.

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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