Verse 6

Deuteronomy 22:6

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6 If you happen to find a bird's nest with chicks or eggs, whether it's in a tree or on the ground beside the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, don't take the mother with the young.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י יִקָּרֵ֣א קַן צִפּ֣וֹר לְ/פָנֶ֡י/ךָ בַּ/דֶּ֜רֶךְ בְּ/כָל עֵ֣ץ א֣וֹ עַל הָ/אָ֗רֶץ אֶפְרֹחִים֙ א֣וֹ בֵיצִ֔ים וְ/הָ/אֵ֤ם רֹבֶ֨צֶת֙ עַל הָֽ/אֶפְרֹחִ֔ים א֖וֹ עַל הַ/בֵּיצִ֑ים לֹא תִקַּ֥ח הָ/אֵ֖ם עַל הַ/בָּנִֽים
English Translation
If a bird's nest is encountered before you on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.
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Chapter 22 Context
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3 Do the same for whatever else you find that someone has lost—a donkey, a cloak, anything. Don't just... Focus ↗
4 If you see someone's donkey or cow that has fallen down on the road, don't just ignore it. Help lift... Focus ↗
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9 Don't plant your vineyard with another kind of crop. Otherwise everything you produce—the crop you p... Focus ↗
10 It may happen that a man marries a woman and sleeps with her, but ends up hating her, Focus ↗
11 and accuses her of being immoral, giving her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and slept wit... Focus ↗
12 The woman's parents are to bring the proof of her virginity to the elders at the town gate, Focus ↗
13 and the father will explain to them, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has ended u... Focus ↗
14 Now he has accused her of being immoral, saying, ‘I found out that your daughter wasn't a virgin.’ B... Focus ↗
15 They shall also fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give the money to the young woman's father,... Focus ↗
16 But if the accusation is true, and there's no proof of the woman's virginity, Focus ↗
17 she is to be taken to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her town are to stone her... Focus ↗
18 If a man is found sleeping with someone else's wife, both the man and the woman must die. You must e... Focus ↗
19 If a man meets a girl, a virgin engaged to another man, and sleeps with her there in the town, Focus ↗
20 then you must take both of them to the town gate and stone them to death. The young woman is guilty... Focus ↗
21 However, if the man happens to meet a woman who is engaged out in the countryside, and he attacks he... Focus ↗
22 Don't do anything to the woman, because she has not committed a sin punishable by death. (This is th... Focus ↗
23 When the man raped the woman who was engaged out in the countryside, she shouted out, but there wasn... Focus ↗
24 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not engaged, and he grabs her and rapes her, and someone se... Focus ↗
25 the man must pay the woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and he must marry her because he has br... Focus ↗
26 A man must not marry his father's wife, so that he won't bring shame on his father. Focus ↗