Deuteronomy 25:4
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.In other versions
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out `the grain'.
ASV
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
BBE
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
DBY
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
WEB
`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
YLT
You shall not suppress the ox when he treads out the corn.
ENG
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
WBT
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
BSB
In context
2And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
3Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.