Egg
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(Deut. 22:6)—the product from which birds hatch and also a common food. Israel’s law commanded that if a bird’s nest with young or eggs was found, the mother was to be released rather than taken with her young (Deut. 22:6-7). The law’s restraint is comparable to the command not to slaughter a cow or ewe and her offspring on the same day (Lev. 22:28), and teaches responsible care for living creatures. Jesus appeals to ordinary parental kindness: what father, if his son asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? (Luke 11:11-12).