'Yoke' in the Bible
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For it is good to bear my yoke, and my burden is light."
"A second pleaded, "'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.'
Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?
Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.
But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,
Let all who are under the yoke of slavery hold their own masters to be deserving of honour, so that the name of God and the Christian teaching may not be spoken against.