You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain.

For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it threshes." Is it oxen God is concerned about?

Or does He say [this] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, for it is written, that he that plows should plow in hope, and he that threshes, in hope should partake of his hope.

For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing.

Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. [There shall be] rest in seed time and in harvest.

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley.

and [his manner shall be] to make them to himself captains of hundreds and captains of thousands; and to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and prepare his instruments of war, and the implements of his chariots.