Who serves as a soldier at his own expense?(A) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing? For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox(B) while it treads out grain.[a](C) Is God really concerned about oxen?

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Footnotes

  1. 9:9 Dt 25:4

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