Deuteronomy 22:6

Modern English Version

If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, whether they be young ones or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you are not to take the mother from the young.

Cross References

Genesis 32:11

Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

Genesis 8:17

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man tends to the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Hosea 10:14

therefore a tumult will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle; mothers were dashed to pieces upon their children.

Leviticus 22:28

But you shall not slaughter on the same day an ox or a sheep and her young.

Luke 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies ? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Deuteronomy 22:5

A woman must not wear man’s clothing, nor is a man to put on a woman’s clothing, for all who do so are abominations to the Lord your God.