Deuteronomy 25:4
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You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
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You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.