"Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain.

We read in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain." Now, is God concerned about oxen?

Didn't he really mean us when he said that? Of course that was written for us. Anyone who plows and anyone who reaps should do their work in the hope of getting a share of the crop.

This is only the second year of famine in the land; there will be five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor reaping.

"You have six days in which to do your work, but do not work on the seventh day, not even during plowing time or harvest.

They are to take it down to a spot near a stream that never runs dry and where the ground has never been plowed or planted, and there they are to break its neck.

He will make some of them officers in charge of a thousand men, and others in charge of fifty men. Your sons will have to plow his fields, harvest his crops, and make his weapons and the equipment for his chariots.