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Justice for Working Animals
This law literally commanded that an ox, while working to thresh grain, should not be muzzled and prevented from eating. Commentators explain this establishes a foundational principle of justice and kindness, obligating people to care for the animals that serve them.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 25:4
18th Century
Theologian
Compare the marginal references. In other kinds of labor the oxen were usually muzzled. When driven to and fro over the threshing-floor in order to…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 25:1–4
19th Century
Bishop
Deuteronomy 25:1–3. HUMANITY IN PUNISHMENTS.
They shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wick…
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 25:4
16th Century
Theologian
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox. This passage, indeed, properly belongs to the Supplements of the Commandment, but since it is a confirmation…
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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 25:4
17th Century
Pastor
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the corn].
As oxen are used in ploughing, so likewise in treading …
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 25:4
17th Century
Minister
This is a charge to farmers. It teaches us to care well for the animals that serve us. But we must learn not only to be just, but kind to all who a…