Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Holman Bible
“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
International Standard Version
"Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain."
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain .
Amplified
“You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing [to prevent him from eating any of the grain].
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox treading.
King James 2000
You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"You shall not muzzle an ox {when he is threshing}.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not muzzle an ox when he treads out the grain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
NET Bible
You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
New Heart English Bible
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the corn.
Webster
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
World English Bible
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Youngs Literal Translation
'Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Beasts » Domestic » To be taken care of
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Not to be muzzled, when treading grain
Bullock (ox) » Uses of » For treading out grain
Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 25:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
3 He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee. 4 Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 28:27
For the chick-peas are not threshed with a sharp instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the chick-peas are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves 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 Corinthians 9:9-10
For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.