Deuteronomy 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else ¹  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ²  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ³  from the handle and strikes ⁴  his fellow worker ⁵  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁶  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 20:19

20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, ⁸  you must not chop down its trees, ⁹  for you may eat fruit ¹⁰  from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 22:6

22:6 If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, ¹²  you must not take the mother from the young. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”

² tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

³ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

⁴ tn Heb “finds.”

⁵ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and live.”

⁸ tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

⁹ tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).

¹⁰ tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”

¹² tn Heb “and the mother sitting upon the chicks or the eggs.”

¹³ tn Heb “sons,” used here in a generic sense for offspring.