Deuteronomy 25:4

Contemporary English Version

Don't Muzzle an Ox

Moses said to Israel:

⁴^(A) Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain.^[a]

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Footnotes

25.4 threshing grain: Oxen were used at the threshing place to walk on heads of grain, or pull heavy slabs of wood over it, to separate the kernels from the husks.

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Matthew 10:10

Contemporary English Version

¹⁰^(A) And don't carry^[a] a traveling bag or an extra shirt or sandals or a walking stick.

Workers deserve their food.

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10.9,10 Don't take along … don't carry: Or “Don't accept … don't accept.”

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Luke 10:7

Contemporary English Version

⁷^(A) Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they give you, because workers are worth what they earn. Don't move around from house to house.

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