Deuteronomy 25:4

Thou shalt not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the corn.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3forty stripes, may he give him not going beyond,—lest, if he do go beyond to smite him above these, with many stripes, then should thy brother be of no account in thine eyes.

5When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth, having, no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger,—her husband’s brother, shall go in unto her, and take her unto him to wife and do for her as a husband’s brother.

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Cross References

Proverbs 12:10A righteous man, regardeth the desire of his beast, but, the compassions of the lawless, are cruel.

Hosea 10:11But, Ephraim, shall be a heifer broken in, loving to tread out corn, when, I, have passed over upon her fair neck,—I will drive Ephraim, Judah, shall plow, Jacob, shall harrow to him.

1 Timothy 5:17Let, the well presiding elders, of double honour, be accounted worthy, especially they who toil in discourse 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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