Deuteronomy 22:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 22:28 : 28 A cow or a sheep may not be put to death with its young on the same day.
  • Prov 12:10 : 10 An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.
  • Luke 12:6 : 6 Are not five sparrows given in exchange for two farthings? and God has every one of them in mind.
  • Gen 8:17 : 17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.
  • Gen 32:11 : 11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

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  • Deut 22:7
    87%

    7See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.

  • Lev 22:28
    72%

    28A cow or a sheep may not be put to death with its young on the same day.

  • Job 39:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

    14Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

  • Deut 32:11
    72%

    11As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

  • Deut 22:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

    5It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:26
    71%

    26Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

  • Isa 34:15
    71%

    15The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

  • Exod 23:19
    71%

    19The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 22:1
    70%

    1If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20But all clean birds you may take.

    21You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Prov 30:17
    70%

    17The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

  • Deut 14:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11All clean birds may be used for food.

    12But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

  • Deut 28:26
    70%

    26Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

  • Jer 17:11
    70%

    11Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

  • Ps 104:17
    69%

    17Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

  • Deut 4:17
    69%

    17Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,

  • Deut 24:17
    69%

    17Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Exod 22:30
    69%

    30In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

  • Lev 1:16
    69%

    16And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put:

  • Job 39:27
    69%

    27Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

  • Lev 11:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

    14And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;

  • Deut 28:56-57
    2 verses
    69%

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Lev 11:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

    20Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;

  • Deut 19:14
    68%

    14Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Ps 84:3
    68%

    3The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

  • Deut 22:9
    68%

    9Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Exod 22:22
    68%

    22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

  • Lev 19:19
    68%

    19Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

  • Prov 6:5
    68%

    5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

  • Prov 22:6
    68%

    6If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Num 6:10
    68%

    10And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;

  • Prov 27:8
    68%

    8Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

  • Deut 14:18
    68%

    18The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

  • Deut 14:15
    68%

    15And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

  • Matt 6:26
    67%

    26See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

  • Lev 1:14
    67%

    14And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons.

  • Deut 12:25
    67%

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Exod 34:20
    67%

    20A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

  • Deut 15:21
    67%

    21But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 28:31
    67%

    31Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.