John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:6
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in any tree, or on the ground ,.... Which are the usual places in which birds build their nests; and this, as Jarchi observes, excepts such nests that are prepared, that is, that are purposely made for fowls kept at home; and with which agrees the Jewish canon, which says F20 Misn. Cholin, c. 12. sect. 1. "the letting go (the dam out of) the nest is not used but of a fowl, and it is not used but of what is not prepared; what is that which is... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:5-12
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. And yet the significancy and tendency of these statutes, which seem little, are such that,... read more