If 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:
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Si tu rencontres dans ton chemin un nid d'oiseau, sur un arbre ou sur la terre, avec des petits ou des oeufs, et la mère couchée sur les petits ou sur les oeufs, tu ne prendras pas la mère et les petits,
KJV
If 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:
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
en," and, therefore, neither of other irrational animals. Therefore without reason is it commanded ( Dt. 22:6 ): "If thou find, as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree . . . thou shalt not take the dam with her young"; and ( Dt. 25:4 ): "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox t…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
, sancta conversatio, ut in Deuteronomio: «Et avem pullis in nido incubantem [Note: [Col. 1005] 20 Deut. XXII, 6.] ,» id est, virum bonum in sancta conversatione operibus bonis insistentem. Nidus, viri sancti animus, ut in Job: «Et in arduis ponet nidum suum [Note: [Col. 10…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)
el in arbore sive terra posita ova seu pullos capiens, in nido matrem his incubantem pariter rapiat (Deut. XXII, 6) , ut longo mereantur vivere tempore. Et est sententia: Nostra mens cum aut ova bonae cogitationis et propositi fovet, aut bonae sed tenerae adhuc operationis pullos…
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