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If a bird`s nest chance to be before you in 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:
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A Command to Cultivate Compassion
Multiple commentators, including Calvin and Gill, agree that this law's primary purpose was to cultivate compassion and prevent cruelty. By commanding kindness towards a vulnerable mother bird, God was teaching His people to develop a spirit of humanity. This principle was meant to shape their character and extend to how they treated one another.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These precepts are designed to cultivate a spirit of humanity. Compare Deuteronomy 25:4; Leviticus 22:28; and [Reference 1 Corinthians 9…
19th Century
Anglican
If a bird’s nest. —On this precept there is a remarkable comment in the Talmud (Kiddushin, p. 39, b). Rabbi Akib…
16th Century
Protestant
Since by this precept God instructed His people in the law of kindness, it is a supplement to the Sixth Commandment.
Indeed, regard was give…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If a bird's nest chance to be before you in any tree, or on the ground
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God's providence extends to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do likewise, so that even in these small matters we may live in the fear of the …
