Deuteronomy 25:4
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Proverbs 12:10
The righteous is merciful even unto his beast, but the piety of the wicked is cruel.
Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not threshed with a 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
Ephraim is a heifer that is taught and loves to tread out the wheat; but I shall pass over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen?
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders that govern well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and doctrine.