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Gill's Exposition
Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. As oxen are used in ploughing, so likewise in treading or beating out the corn; of the manner of which; see Gill on Co1 9:9; now while it…
Barnes' Notes
Compare the marginal references. In other kinds of labor the oxen were usually muzzled. When driven to and fro over the threshing-floor in order to stamp out the grain from the chaff, they were to be…
Here is, I. A direction to the judges in scourging malefactors, Deu 25:1-3. 1. It is here supposed that, if a man be charged with a crime, the accuser and the accused (Actor and Reus) should be…
Cambridge Bible
Against Muzzling the Labouring Ox. Peculiar to D; a clear
The present writer has never seen them muzzled. -In all W. Asia it is the universal custom to allow the oxen or other animals thus employed…
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