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Deuteronomy 22:8

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

When thou buildest a newe house, thou shalt make a battlemet on thy roofe, that thou lay not blood vpon thine house, if any man fal thence.

Darby Translation

When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it.

Young's Literal Translation

'When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it.

Bible in Basic English

If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

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Cross references

“then thou shalt”

Exodus 21:28–36 Exodus 22:6 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Romans 14:13 1 Corinthians 10:32 Philippians 1:10

Exodus 21:28–36 · BSB

If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.

Exodus 22:6 · BSB

If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 · BSB

Abstain from every form of evil.

Romans 14:13 · BSB

Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.

1 Corinthians 10:32 · BSB

Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

Philippians 1:10 · BSB

so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

“thy roof”

2 Samuel 11:2 Isaiah 22:1 Jeremiah 19:13 Mark 2:4 Matthew 10:27 Acts 10:9

2 Samuel 11:2 · BSB

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

Isaiah 22:1 · BSB

This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

Jeremiah 19:13 · BSB

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other…

Mark 2:4 · BSB

Since they were unable to get to Jesus through the crowd, they uncovered the roof above Him, made an opening, and lowered the paralytic on his mat.

Matthew 10:27 · BSB

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

Acts 10:9 · BSB

The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

“thou bring”

Ezekiel 3:18 Ezekiel 3:20 Ezekiel 32:2–9 Matthew 18:6 Matthew 18:7 Acts 20:26

Ezekiel 3:18 · BSB

If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his…

Ezekiel 3:20 · BSB

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be re…

Ezekiel 32:2–9 · BSB

“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet a…

Matthew 18:6 · BSB

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:7 · BSB

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Acts 20:26 · BSB

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

9Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled —both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

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