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Deuteronomy 25:4

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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 thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.

6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

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BSB
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
KJV
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
WEB
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
ASV
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the grain].
DARBY
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
BLB
You shall not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
ÅB
Du skal ikke binde munnen til på en okse som tresker.
OTB
Ikke hindre en okse fra å spise mens den arbeider med å treske kornet.
B1930
Du skal ikke binde munnen til på en okse som tresker.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Timothy 5:17–18

    Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

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  • 1 Corinthians 9:9–10

    For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

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  • Proverbs 12:10

    A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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  • Hosea 10:11

    And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

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  • Isaiah 28:27

    For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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