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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Matthew Henry
(vv. 5-12)Here are several laws in these verses which seem to stoop very low, and to take cognizance of things mean and minute. Men’s laws commonly do not so: Deut. minimis non curat lex—The law takes no cognizance of little things ; but because God’s providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord , as we are under his eye and care....
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