Manger

The same word that names the feeding-box of cattle is also rendered "stall" in the Sabbath-controversy texts. Within the in-scope material, the term anchors a single argument: ordinary care for animals at the stall is granted on the Sabbath, and what is granted there is not refused to a person made whole by Yahweh's name.

The Ox at the Stall

Answering objections to a Sabbath healing, the Lord names the routine release of an ox or donkey from its stall as something everyone in the audience does without scruple: "But the Lord answered him, and said, You⁺ hypocrites, does not each of you⁺ on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead him away to watering?" (Luke 13:15). The stall and its watering schedule serve the argument: if a beast is released from the manger on the Sabbath, the released human deserves no less.