a replica of any animal that [is] upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air,

You may eat any clean bird.

"If a bird's nest is found {before you} on the road in any tree or on the ground, [and there are] chicks or eggs, and the mother [is] lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young;

May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.

"Yes, ask, please, about former days that {preceded you} from the day that God created humankind on the earth; [ask even] from [one] end of the heaven up to the [other] end of heaven {whether anything ever happened} like this great thing or {whether anything like it was ever heard}.

And your heavens that [are] over your heads shall be [like] bronze, and the earth that [is] under you [shall be like] iron.