If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.

Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants: