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.
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 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.
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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- then thou shalt
- The eastern houses being built with flat roofs, which were used for various purposed, as walking, sleeping, etc., it was therefore necessary to have a sort of battlement, or balustrade, to prevent accidents, by people falling off.
- Exodus 21:28–36; Exodus 22:6; Romans 14:13; 1 Corinthians 10:32; Philippians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:22
- thy roof
- 2 Samuel 11:2; Isaiah 22:1; Jeremiah 19:13; Matthew 10:27; Mark 2:4; Acts 10:9
- thou bring
- Ezekiel 3:18, 20; Ezekiel 32:2–9; Matthew 18:6, 7; Acts 20:26, 27