6 “If you happen upon a bird’s nest along the road with young ones or eggs, whether in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young ones or the eggs, you must not take the mother together with her young.+ 7 Be sure to send the mother away, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may live long.

6 Five sparrows sell for two coins of small value, do they not? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.*+ 7 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.+ Have no fear; you are worth more than many sparrows.+