Verse 6

`When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones;

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 22:28 : 28 but an ox or sheep -- it and its young one, ye do not slaughter in one day.
  • Prov 12:10 : 10 The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked `are' cruel.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 And rise doth a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses are spoiled, As the spoiling of Shalman of Beth-Arbel, In a day of battle, Mother against sons dashed in pieces.
  • Luke 12:6 : 6 `Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God,
  • Gen 8:17 : 17 and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'
  • Gen 32:11 : 11 `Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons;