Parallel Verses
King James 2000
You shall not muzzle the ox when it 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."
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the 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.
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 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him more than these with many stripes, then your brother should seem degraded unto you. 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain. 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regards the life of his animal: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 28:27
For the dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, neither is a cart wheel rolled over the cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is as a heifer that is trained, and loves to tread out the grain; but I harnessed her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to pull a plow; Judah shall plow, and Jacob must break his clods.
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God care for oxen?
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.