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I am not just telling you human ideas. God's Law teaches the same thing. God's Law that he gave to Moses says this: ‘Do not tie shut the mouth of your ox while it walks on your grain.’[a]

But God's Law does not teach this only to help bulls. 10 No, God wanted to help us too. That is why he gave this rule to Moses for his people. Any farmer who works hard to grow food should get some of the food for himself. He ploughs his fields and he prepares the seeds because he hopes to eat some of the food.

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  1. 9:9 See Deuteronomy 25:4. Farmers used a bull to walk on the wheat that they had cut. They did that to remove the seeds for food. Moses' Law said that the farmer must let the bull eat some of the seeds.