Deuteronomy 22:8

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

When thou buildest {H1129} a new {H2319} house {H1004}, then thou shalt make {H6213} a battlement {H4624} for thy roof {H1406}, that thou bring {H7760} not blood {H1818} upon thine house {H1004}, if any man {H5307} fall {H5307} from thence.

"When you build a new house, you must build a low wall around your roof; otherwise someone may fall from it, and you will be responsible for his death.

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 22:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

  • Exodus 21:28 (3 votes)

    If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit.

  • Exodus 21:36 (3 votes)

    Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

  • 2 Samuel 11:2 (3 votes)

    And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.

  • Jeremiah 19:13 (3 votes)

    And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

  • Mark 2:4 (3 votes)

    And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken [it] up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

  • Exodus 22:6 (2 votes)

    If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.