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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֤יkiifH3588 →
תִבְנֶה֙tiv.Nehyou will buildH1129 →
בַּ֣יִתBa.yita houseH1004 →
חָדָ֔שׁcha.DashnewH2319 →
וְעָשִׂ֥יתָve.'a.Si.taand you will makeH6213 →
מַעֲקֶ֖הma.'a.Keha parapetH4624 →
לְגַגֶּ֑ךָle.ga.Ge.khafor roof yourH1406 →
וְלֹֽא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
תָשִׂ֤יםta.Simyou will putH7760 →
דָּמִים֙da.Mimblood<s>H1818 →
בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָbe.vei.Te.khaon house yourH1004 →
כִּֽי־ki-ifH3588 →
יִפֹּ֥לyi.Polhe will fallH5307 →
הַנֹּפֵ֖לha.no.Fel<the> [one who] fallsH5307 →
מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ סmi.Me.nufrom itH4480 →

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1 Samuel 9:25And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.Judges 16:27Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.Mark 2:4Since 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.2 Samuel 11:2One 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.Exodus 21:28–36If 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.Jeremiah 19:13The 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 gods.”Isaiah 22:1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,Matthew 24:17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.Joshua 2:6(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)Exodus 22:6If 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.Matthew 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.Acts 10:9The 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.2 Kings 23:12He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.Isaiah 15:3In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.Nehemiah 8:16And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.Ezekiel 3:20Now 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 remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.Ezekiel 3:18If 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 blood.

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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