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A small mother bird sits on a nest containing eggs among tree branches.
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Deuteronomy 22:6

The Mother on the Nest

Care for What Is Lost and Hear the Household Judgments · Deuteronomy 22

Story guide: The mother on the nest accompanies the command not to take her together with the young.

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6If a bird’s nest happens to be before you on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young ones or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young.

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