Verse 24

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
  • Exod 34:21 : 21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
  • Deut 21:4 : 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
  • Deut 25:4 : 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
  • 1 Sam 8:12 : 12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
  • Luke 3:17 : 17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
  • 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." Is it for the oxen that God cares, 10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.