For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.
But He said to them,“ What man among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn’t take hold of it and lift it out?A man is worth far more than a sheep, so it is lawful to do what is good on the Sabbath.”