For instance, the Law included commands that prohibited sacrificing an animal unless it had been with its mother for at least seven days, slaughtering both an animal and its offspring on the same day, and taking from a nest both a mother and her eggs or offspring. ​ — Leviticus 22: 27, 28; Deuteronomy 22: 6, 7.
नियमशास्त्राचे अनेक फायदे आहेत; त्यांपैकी एक म्हणजे या नियमशास्त्रातील नियमांमागील तत्त्वे आपल्यामध्ये, नैतिकतेची जाणीव वाढवतात.