Deuteronomy 25:4

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

³ He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight. ⁴ “Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. ⁵ “When brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Muzzle an Ox

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man cares about his animal’s health,
but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel.

Isaiah 28:27

Certainly black cumin is not threshed
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.

Hosea 10:11

Ephraim is a well-trained calf
that loves to thresh,
but I will place a yoke on her fine neck.
I will harness Ephraim;
Judah will plow;
Jacob will do the final plowing.

1 Corinthians 9:9-10

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?

1 Timothy 5:17-18

The elders who are good leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorarium, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.