“If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.