3 My defence to those who examine me is this:
4 Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
5 Do we not have a right to take along a sister – a wife – as do also the other emissaries, and the brothers of the Master, and Kĕpha?
6 Or do only Barnaḇah and I have no right to refrain from working?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock?
8 Do I say this as a man? Or does not the Torah say the same too?
9 For it has been written in the Torah of Mosheh, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it about oxen Elohim is concerned?