the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Deuteronomy 25:4
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"You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.
"You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.
Thou shalt not moosell the oxe that treadeth out the corne.
"When an animal is being used to separate grain, you must not cover its mouth to stop it from eating.
You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain .
"You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Thou shalt not mussell the oxe when he treadeth out the corne.
Thou shalt not mosell the mouth of the oxe, that treadeth out the corne.
Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
"You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.
Moses said to Israel: Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain.
"You are not to muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
Thou shalt not mousell the oxe that treadeth out the corne.
You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.
"Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain.
"You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing [to prevent him from eating any of the grain].
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
"You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.
"When the bull is made to walk on the grain to break it open, do not stop him from eating some.
You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Thou shalt not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the corn.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.
"You shall not muzzle an ox when he is threshing.
"You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
"You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.
When an ox is working in the grain, do not cover its mouth to keep it from eating.
"Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
Thou schalt not bynde the `mouth of the oxe tredynge thi fruytis in the corn floor.
`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shalt not: In Judea, as well as in Egypt, Greece, and Italy, they made use of beeves to tread out the corn; and the same mode of threshing still obtains in Arabia, Barbary, and other eastern countries, to the present day. The sheaves lie open and expanded on the threshing floors, and the cattle continually move round them, and thus tread out the grain. The natives of Aleppo still religiously observe the ancient humane practice, inculcated by this law, of permitting the oxen to remain unmuzzled when treading out the corn.
muzzle: Proverbs 12:10, 1 Corinthians 9:9, 1 Corinthians 9:10, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Timothy 5:18
treadeth out: Heb. thresheth, Isaiah 28:27, Hosea 10:11
Reciprocal: Numbers 22:32 - Wherefore Job 24:11 - General Isaiah 30:24 - oxen
Cross-References
The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn]. As oxen are used in ploughing, so likewise in treading or beating out the corn; of the manner of which, :-; now while it was thus employed, it might not be restrained by any means from eating the corn as it had an opportunity, either by a muzzle put over its mouth, or other ways. The Gentiles had several ways of restraining their cattle from eating, while they thus made use of them, to which this law is opposed. Maimonides f has collected several or them together, as prohibited by it; as putting a thorn into its mouth, causing a lion to lie down by it, or causing its calf to lie down without, or spreading a skin on the top of the corn, that so it may not eat. Aelianus g relates a very particular way of hindering oxen from eating at such times, used some countries, which was this; that oxen might not eat of the ears of corn, in a floor where they were trod out, they used to besmear their nostrils with cows' dung, which was so disagreeable to the creature, that it would not taste anything though pressed with famine. This law is not to be limited to the ox only, or to this peculiar work assigned it; but, as Jarchi says, respects any sort of cattle, and whatsoever work that has food in it, none of them being to be restrained from eating while at work: and this law was not made for the creatures only, but for men also; and especially for the sake of ministers of the word; who for their strength, labour, and industry, are compared to oxen, and ought to be comfortably supported and maintained on account of their work; for the illustration and confirmation of which this passage is twice produced,
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f Hilchot Shecirut, c. 13. sect. 2, 3. g Hist. Animal. l. 4. c. 25.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 stamp out the grain from the chaff, they were to be allowed to partake of the fruits of their labors.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 25:4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox, c. — In Judea, as well as in Egypt, Greece, and Italy, they make use of beeves to tread out the corn and Dr. Shaw tells us that the people of Barbary continue to tread out their corn after the custom of the East. Instead of beeves they frequently made use of mules and horses, by tying by the neck three or four in like manner together, and whipping them afterwards round about the nedders, as they call the treading floors, (the Libycae areae Hor), where the sheaves lie open and expanded, in the same manner as they are placed and prepared with us for threshing. This indeed is a much quicker way than ours, though less cleanly, for as it is performed in the open air, (Hosea 13:3), upon any round level plot of ground, daubed over with cow's dung to prevent as much as possible the earth, sand, or gravel from rising; a great quantity of them all, notwithstanding this precaution, must unavoidably be taken up with the grain, at the same time that the straw, which is their chief and only fodder, is hereby shattered to pieces; a circumstance very pertinently alluded to in 2 Kings 13:7, where the king of Syria is said to have made the Israelites like the dust by threshing. - Travels, p. 138. While the oxen were at work some muzzled their mouths to hinder them from eating the corn, which Moses here forbids, instructing the people by this symbolical precept to be kind to their servants and labourers, but especially to those who ministered to them in holy things; so St. Paul applies it 1 Corinthians 9:9, c. 1 Timothy 5:18. Le Clerc considers the injunction as wholly symbolical; and perhaps in this view it was intended to confirm the laws enjoined in the fourteenth and fifteenth verses of the former chapter. See Dodd and Shaw.
In Bengal, where the same mode of treading cut the corn is used, some muzzle the ox, and others do not, according to the disposition of the farmer.-Ward.
