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Muzzle for Ox



Muzzle for Ox


‎To prevent animals from eating during work, they were muzzled. However, the Bible unequivocally forbids such a method. Israelite law said that the animal doing the work of pulling the threshing sledge all day should not wear a muzzle, so that it would be able to eat grain and straw from the threshing floor.
Deut 25:4; 1 Cor 9:9; 1 Tim 5:18

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