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9. Laws arising from the ninth commandment 24:8-25:19 >
Animals 25:4
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God's care for animals as His creatures lay behind this law. The Apostle Paul expounded the significance of this command (1 Cor. 9:9; 1 Tim. 5:18).
"The purpose clearly was not only to provide for the ox itself but to make the point by a fortioriargument that if a mere animal was worthy of humane treatment, how much more so was a human being created as the image of God."278
