Deuteronomy 25:4
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 28:27
For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.