25:4 You must not muzzle your 1 ox when it is treading grain.
25:1 If controversy arises between people, 2 they should go to court for judgment. When the judges 3 hear the case, they shall exonerate 4 the innocent but condemn 5 the guilty.
1 tn Heb “an.” By implication this is one’s own animal.
2 tn Heb “men.”
3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”
5 tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”