Deuteronomy 25:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

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  • Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
  • 1 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.' Does God care for oxen? 10 Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. 18 For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. And, The laborer is worthy of his wages.
  • Isa 28:27 : 27 For the black cumin is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin; but the black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
  • Hos 10:11 : 11 And Ephraim is like a trained heifer that loves to thresh grain; but I put a yoke on her fair neck: I will make Ephraim ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 9:8-10
    3 verses
    84%

    8Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

    9For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.' Does God care for oxen?

    10Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
    83%

    18For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. And, The laborer is worthy of his wages.

  • Deut 22:10
    79%

    10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

  • Isa 28:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27For the black cumin is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin; but the black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

    28Bread grain is crushed, yet he does not thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    35If one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide.

    36Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Isa 30:24
    75%

    24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

  • Deut 23:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    24When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat grapes to your satisfaction at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

    25When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not wield a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain.

  • Deut 25:3
    75%

    3Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed; lest, if he should exceed and beat him with many more stripes, then your brother should appear vile to you.

  • Prov 14:4
    75%

    4Where there are no oxen, the crib is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of the ox.

  • Exod 21:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28If an ox gores a man or a woman, and they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.

    29But if the ox was known to gore in time past, and its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it in, and it kills a man or woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

  • Deut 22:4
    74%

    4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

  • Exod 21:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31Whether it has gored a son or a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

    32If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Deut 22:1
    72%

    1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother.

  • Exod 23:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

    5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its burden and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Ps 129:7
    72%

    7With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

  • Lev 19:9
    72%

    9And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

  • Deut 15:14
    72%

    14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Lev 25:14
    72%

    14And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    71%

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

    15You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

  • Exod 23:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

    12Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner may be refreshed.

  • Lev 25:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.

    5What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your undressed vine: for it is a year of rest to the land.

  • Lev 25:11
    71%

    11A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: you shall not sow, nor reap what grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your undressed vine.

  • Deut 28:31
    70%

    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

  • Deut 24:6
    70%

    6No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.

  • Deut 24:19-21
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    70%

    19When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Deut 25:5
    70%

    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Exod 34:21
    70%

    21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

  • Exod 22:5
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    5If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed upon, and allows his animal to wander and feed in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

  • Exod 22:1
    70%

    1If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

  • Lev 25:43
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    43You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

  • Lev 25:37
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    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • Mic 6:15
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    15You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and crush grapes, but not drink the wine.

  • Lev 25:39
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    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

  • Deut 15:19
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    19All the firstborn males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your bull, nor shear the firstborn of your sheep.

  • Exod 21:25
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    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

  • Prov 27:23
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    23Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.