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You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 25:1–3. HUMANITY IN PUNISHMENTS.
They shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wick…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the corn].
As oxen are used in ploughing, so likewise in treading …
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…
