March 5

Leviticus 19:9, 10, 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19-22, 23:24, 25; Leviticus 25:35-38; Deuteronomy 5:16; Leviticus 19:3a; Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9; Deuteronomy 21:18-21; Leviticus 19:32; Exodus 22:22-24, 22:21, 23:9; Leviticus 19:33, 34, 24:22, 19:14, 16-18; Exodus 23:4, 5; Deuteronomy 22:1-4, 5:21, 25:4, 22:6, 7, 20:1-20,23:9-14, 24:5, 21:10-14

The people are commanded to leave the edges of the field for the poor, which infers the poor must work to harvest the edges of the field for their food.

Respecting your parents and respecting the life of a mother bird carry the same promise and blessing -- long life.

Honor your father and mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. [Deut. 5:16]

If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, don not take the mother with the young.  You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life. [Deut. 22:6, 7]

God the ecologically minded also tells them to spare the trees when they lay siege to a city as they go in to secure the Promised Land.  Do not cut them down.  Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them?  [Deut. 20:19b]