Deuteronomy 22:7
Good News Translation
You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go, so that you will live a long and prosperous life.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the mother go, taking only the young for yourself, in order that it may go well with you and you may live long.

New American Bible
You must let the mother go, taking only her brood, in order that you shall prosper and have a long life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.

that it may

Deuteronomy 4:40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

thou mayest

Proverbs 22:4 The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

Context
Various Laws
6If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her young: 7But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.8When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.…
Cross References
Leviticus 22:28
Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed the same day with their young ones.

Deuteronomy 4:40
Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 5:33
But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession.

Deuteronomy 22:8
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.

Deuteronomy 22:6
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