Deu 22:6-7 | ESV | STEP | If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground , with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs , you shall not take the mother with the young .

Deuteronomy 22:6-7

6 “If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, ^ayou shall not take the mother with the young. 7 You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, ^bthat it may go well with you, and that you may live long.