Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Holman Bible
“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
International Standard Version
"Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain."
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain .
Amplified
“You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing [to prevent him from eating any of the grain].
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox treading.
King James 2000
You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"You shall not muzzle an ox {when he is threshing}.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not muzzle an ox when he treads out the grain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
NET Bible
You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
New Heart English Bible
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the corn.
Webster
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
World English Bible
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Youngs Literal Translation
'Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Beasts » Domestic » To be taken care of
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Not to be muzzled, when treading grain
Bullock (ox) » Uses of » For treading out grain
Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 25:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you. 4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. 5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 12:10
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.