⁶ “If a bird’s nest is found before you^[a] 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; ⁷ you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves;^[b] do this so that it may go well^[c] for you and you may live long in the land.^[d]