Deuteronomy 22:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”
  • Prov 22:4 : 4 The reward for humility and fearing the LORD is riches and honor and life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 22:6
    87%

    6If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.

  • Lev 22:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27“When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the LORD.

    28You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day.

  • Exod 22:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

    30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

  • Exod 23:26
    71%

    26No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • Eph 6:3
    71%

    3“that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

  • Deut 4:40
    70%

    40Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”

  • Deut 22:8
    70%

    8If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.

  • Deut 5:16
    70%

    16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

  • Deut 22:1
    69%

    1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

  • Job 39:4
    69%

    4Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

  • Prov 22:6
    69%

    6Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

  • Deut 11:21
    69%

    21so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

    21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Exod 34:26
    69%

    26“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

  • Deut 12:25
    69%

    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

  • Exod 20:12
    69%

    12“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

  • Exod 23:19
    69%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Deut 32:11
    68%

    11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the LORD spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

  • Deut 12:28
    68%

    28Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

  • Prov 27:27
    68%

    27And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

  • Deut 28:26
    68%

    26Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

  • Deut 30:20
    68%

    20I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,

  • Prov 30:17
    68%

    17The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

  • Deut 6:2
    67%

    2and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.

  • Deut 28:31
    67%

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

  • Exod 13:12
    67%

    12then you must give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have– the males will be the LORD’s.

  • Deut 7:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

    14You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

  • Jer 17:11
    67%

    11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”

  • Deut 11:9
    67%

    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 23:11
    67%

    11But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

  • Num 18:15
    67%

    15The firstborn of every womb which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

  • Deut 28:57
    67%

    57and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Deut 6:18
    67%

    18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

  • Jer 29:6
    67%

    6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

  • Gen 7:3
    67%

    3and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.

  • Gen 1:22
    67%

    22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

  • Job 39:14
    67%

    14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

  • Deut 28:41
    67%

    41You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

  • Deut 28:4
    67%

    4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

  • Gen 8:17
    67%

    17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

  • Gen 15:9
    67%

    9The LORD said to him,“Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”