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Deuteronomy 22:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
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Quick Meaning
Deuteronomy 22:6 forbids taking a mother bird together with eggs or young.
Read It With
- Deuteronomy 22:6–12
Read Deuteronomy 22:6 with 22:6–12. It forbids taking a mother bird together with eggs or young. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: A sequence protects the mother bird while taking young, requires a roof parapet, separates seed, plowing animals, and textiles, and commands fringes on a four-cornered garment.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Nest, Roof, Mixtures, and Fringes Order Daily Life advances Deuteronomy's movement from remembered wilderness failure through covenant instruction, land-facing law, public choice, leadership succession, witness song, blessing, and Moses' death. Its particular movement is this: A sequence protects the mother bird while taking young, requires a roof parapet, separates seed, plowing animals, and textiles, and commands fringes on a four-cornered garment. At 22:6, the verse forbids taking a mother bird together with eggs or young.
What Remains True
Because Deuteronomy 22:6 forbids taking a mother bird together with eggs or young, its proportionate enduring truth is this: Justice notices the person with less power, restrains indifference, protects access and evidence, and refuses to make bodily or social difference a measure of worth. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: These short laws do not justify magical rules, animal cruelty, disability-inaccessible buildings, or stigma toward clothing and identity.
How It Can Shape Life
- Verse role: Deuteronomy 22:6 forbids taking a mother bird together with eggs or young. Contextual meaning: A sequence protects the mother bird while taking young, requires a roof parapet, separates seed, plowing animals, and textiles, and commands fringes on a four-cornered garment. Proportionate enduring truth: Justice notices the person with less power, restrains indifference, protects access and evidence, and refuses to make bodily or social difference a measure of worth. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: These short laws do not justify magical rules, animal cruelty, disability-inaccessible buildings, or stigma toward clothing and identity. Application: Read nest release, roof barriers, mixtures, and tassels as distinct daily-life cases; apply the roof case through practical hazard prevention without inventing one theory that flattens all four.
Continue in Context
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Read Deuteronomy 22:6–12 — Nest, Roof, Mixtures, and Fringes Order Daily LifeSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Deuteronomy 22:6–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech and legal clauses, poetic lines, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:6–12
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Deuteronomy with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2026-08-12
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, legal, poetic, measure, name, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Deuteronomy PDF, complete PDF pp. 1–111, translation and translator notes attached to 22:6–12
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