申命记 22:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“如果你在路上遇見鳥窩，或是在樹上，或是在地上；裡面有雛鳥，或是有蛋；母鳥伏在雛鳥身上，或在蛋上；你不可連母帶子一起取去；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 若 路 上 遇 见 鸟 窝 ， 或 在 树 上 或 在 地 上 ， 里 头 有 雏 或 有 蛋 ， 母 鸟 伏 在 雏 上 或 在 蛋 上 ， 你 不 可 连 母 带 雏 一 并 取 去 。

Contextual Overview

⁵ A woman must not wear men's clothes, and a man must not wear women's clothes. The Lord your God hates anyone who does that. ⁶ If you find a bird's nest by the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother bird is sitting on the young birds or eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young birds. ⁷ You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go free. Then things will go well for you, and you will live a long time. ⁸ When you build a new house, build a low wall around the edge of the roof so you will not be guilty if someone falls off the roof. ⁹ Don't plant two different kinds of seeds in your vineyard. Otherwise, both crops will be ruined. ¹⁰ Don't plow with an ox and a donkey tied together. ¹¹ Don't wear clothes made of wool and linen woven together. ¹² Tie several pieces of thread together; then put these tassels on the four corners of your coat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

young ones: Luke 12:6

thou shalt not: Genesis 8:17, Genesis 32:11, Leviticus 22:28, Proverbs 12:10, Hosea 10:14

Cross-References

Isaiah 53:6
We all have wandered away like sheep; each of us has gone his own way. But the Lord has put on him the punishment for all the evil we have done.

Matthew 8:17
He did these things to bring about what Isaiah the prophet had said: "He took our suffering on him and carried our diseases." Isaiah 53:4

John 19:17
Carrying his own cross, Jesus went out to a place called The Place of the Skull, which in the Hebrew language is called Golgotha.

1 Peter 2:24
Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so we would stop living for sin and start living for what is right. And you are healed because of his wounds.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in any tree, or on the ground,.... Which are the usual places in which birds build their nests; and this, as Jarchi observes, excepts such nests that are prepared, that is, that are purposely made for fowls kept at home; and with which agrees the Jewish canon, which says t

"the letting go (the dam out of) the nest is not used but of a fowl, and it is not used but of what is not prepared; what is that which is not prepared? such as geese and hens, whose nest is in an orchard; but if their nest is in the house, and so doves kept at home, a man is free from letting (the dam) go;''

that is, he is not obliged to let it go; and this is to be understood of clean birds only; so the Targum of Jonathan,

"the nests of clean birds;''

agreeably to the same canons and the explanation of them u,

"an unclean bird is free from letting go; so an unclean bird, that sits upon the eggs of a clean bird, also a clean bird that sits upon the eggs of an unclean bird, are free from letting go,''

or persons are not obliged to let such go:

whether they be young ones or eggs; that are in the nest; and the Jewish canon is w,

"if there is but one young one, or one egg, a man is obliged to let go the dam, as it is said a nest: a nest is a word of a large sense:''

and the dam sitting upon the young or upon eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; according to the above canon,

"if she is flying at the time her wings reach the nest, a man is bound to let her go; but if her wings touch not the nest, he is free from letting her go--if the young ones are capable of flying, or the eggs rotten, he is free from letting her go, as it is said, and the dam sitting, c. as the young are alive, so the eggs must be firm and sound, rotten ones are excepted and as eggs have need of their dam, so the young have need of their dam; those (therefore) that can fly are excepted:''

the dam is not to be taken with her young upon any account; yea, it is said x, not even to cleanse a leper; and whoever does take her is to be beaten: this law was made partly to preserve the species of birds, and prevent the decrease of them; for a dam let go might breed again, and to this purpose are the verses ascribed to Phocylides y, which contain the substance of this law, and this reason of it: and partly, as Maimonides observes z, that the dam might not be afflicted at the sight of the spoil of her young; for this law does not prohibit the taking of her in any other place but in her nest, nor after her young are taken, but not together; and, as the same writer remarks, if the law would have such care taken of beasts and birds, that they might be freed from sorrow and distress, how much more of man? Wherefore the intention of this law is to teach humanity, compassion, and pity in men to one another, and to forbid cruelty, covetousness, and such like vices; as also to instruct in the doctrine of Providence, which has a respect to birds; and our Lord may be thought to have this law in view, Luke 12:6.

t Misn. Cholin, c. 12. sect. 1. u Ib. sect. 2. w Ib. sect. 3. x Misn. Cholin, c. 12. sect. 5. y μηδε τις ορνιθας, &c. Poem. admon. l. 80, 81. z Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 48.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These precepts are designed to cultivate a spirit of humanity. Compare Deuteronomy 25:4; Leviticus 22:28; and 1 Corinthians 9:9-10.

Deuteronomy 22:8

The roofs of houses in Palestine were flat and used for various purposes. Compare Jos 2:6; 2 Samuel 11:2; Acts 10:9, etc. A battlement was almost a necessary protection. It was to be, according to the rabbis, at least two cubits high (about 3 ft.).