Deuteronomy 25:4
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.
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- 1 Timothy 5:17–18 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9–10 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth, or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.
- Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.