Deuteronomy 25:4
What does Deuteronomy 25:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 25:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
Context
v.3Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
v.4This passage
v.5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married 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 a husband’s brother unto her.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp 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.
- Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.
- 1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,
- 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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