John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:10
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together ,.... They might be used separately, but not together; nor was it uncommon in some countries for asses to be employed in ploughing as well as oxen. Pliny F8 Nat. Hist. l. 17. c. 5. makes mention of some fruitful land in Africa, which when it was dry weather could not be ploughed by oxen, but after showers of rain might be ploughed by a mean little ass; so Leo Africanus F9 Descriptio Africae, l. 2. p. 104. says, the Africans... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:5-12
Here are several laws in these verses which seem to stoop very low, and to take cognizance of things mean and minute. Men's laws commonly do not so: Deut. minimis non curat lex?The law takes no cognizance of little things; but because God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, as we are under his eye and care. And yet the significancy and tendency of these statutes, which seem little, are such that,... read more