Deuteronomy 25:4

Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.

5When two brothers live near to each other and one of them dies without having a son, the widow is not to marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother is to marry her and sleep with her, fulfilling the requirements of a brother-in-law to provide her with children.

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Cross References

Proverbs 12:10Good people look after their animals, but the care given by wicked is really cruelty.

Hosea 10:11Ephraim is like a trained heifer that loved to thresh the grain, but now I will place a yoke on her strong neck. I will harness Ephraim; Judah will have to pull the plow; and Jacob must break up the ground for himself.

1 Timothy 5:17Elders who direct the church well should be seen as doubly valuable, particularly those who work in speaking 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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