Deuteronomy 25:4
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4 (A)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
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1 Timothy 5:17-18
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17 Let the elders (A)who rule well be considered worthy of (B)double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. 18 For the Scripture says, (C)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, (D)“The laborer deserves his wages.”
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1 Corinthians 9:9-10
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9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, (A)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 10 Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written (B)for our sake, because (C)the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
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Proverbs 12:10
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10 (A)Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,
but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Hosea 10:11
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11 Ephraim was a trained calf
that (A)loved to thresh,
and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put (B)Ephraim to the yoke;
(C)Judah must plow;
Jacob must harrow for himself.
Isaiah 28:27
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27 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
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