Deuteronomy 22:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

See 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
  • Prov 22:4 : 4 The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 22:6
    87%

    6 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:

  • Lev 22:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27 When an ox or a sheep or a goat is given birth, let it be with its mother for seven days; and after the eighth day it may be taken as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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

  • Exod 22:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

    30 In 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.

  • Exod 23:26
    71%

    26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

  • Eph 6:3
    71%

    3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • Deut 4:40
    70%

    40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Deut 22:8
    70%

    8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

  • Deut 5:16
    70%

    16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 22:1
    69%

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

  • Job 39:4
    69%

    4 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

  • Prov 22:6
    69%

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

  • Deut 11:21
    69%

    21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 But all clean birds you may take.

    21 You 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.

  • Exod 34:26
    69%

    26 Take 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

  • Deut 12:25
    69%

    25 Do 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 20:12
    69%

    12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Exod 23:19
    69%

    19 The 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 32:11
    68%

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

  • Deut 12:28
    68%

    28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Prov 27:27
    68%

    27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.

  • Deut 28:26
    68%

    26 Your 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.

  • Deut 30:20
    68%

    20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

  • Prov 30:17
    68%

    17 The 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 6:2
    67%

    2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

  • Deut 28:31
    67%

    31 Your 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.

  • Exod 13:12
    67%

    12 You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.

  • Deut 7:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

    14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

  • Jer 17:11
    67%

    11 Like 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.

  • Deut 11:9
    67%

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 23:11
    67%

    11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

  • Num 18:15
    67%

    15 The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

  • Deut 28:57
    67%

    57 And 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.

  • Deut 6:18
    67%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Jer 29:6
    67%

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Gen 7:3
    67%

    3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

  • Gen 1:22
    67%

    22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

  • Job 39:14
    67%

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

  • Deut 28:41
    67%

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

  • Deut 28:4
    67%

    4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

  • Gen 8:17
    67%

    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 15:9
    67%

    9 And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.