A YOKE — the wooden bar across an animal’s neck, and from the first the Bible’s word for servitude. Isaac tells Esau you will tear his yoke from your neck (Genesis 27:40); the red cow and the heifer of the unsolved killing are animals on which no yoke has come (Numbers 19:2, Deuteronomy 21:3, all already on these pages). ⭐ A yoke of iron stands in two verses of the Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy 28:48, on the neck of a cursed Israel, and Jeremiah 28:14 (already on these pages), on the neck of all the nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar — God’s answer to Hananiah breaking the wooden one. ⚠ Leviticus 26:13 (already on these pages) describes the exodus as a yoke removed, I broke the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright; Jeremiah 2:20 and 30:8 use the same image, and Lamentations bears it (1:14, 3:27, all already on these pages). → first discussed at Deut 28:48