Deuteronomy 25:4

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

5When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:

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Cross References

Proverbs 12:10The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

Hosea 10:11Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself.

1 Timothy 5:17Let the priests that rule well, be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and 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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