Threshing

“So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.”

“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”

“For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.”

“Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.”

“For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?”

“For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.””

“Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.”

“This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.”