Deuteronomy 25:4

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

³ He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes. ⁴ “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing. ⁵ “When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Muzzle an Ox

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal,
But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

Isaiah 28:27

For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin;
But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.

Hosea 10:11

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh,
But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.

1 Corinthians 9:9-10

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

1 Timothy 5:17-18

The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.