Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof. New Living Translation “When you build a new house, you must build a railing around the edge of its flat roof. That way you will not be considered guilty of murder if someone falls from the roof. English Standard Version “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible 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. New King James Version “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it. New American Standard Bible “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring guilt for bloodshed on your house if anyone falls from it. NASB 1995 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it. NASB 1977 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it. Legacy Standard Bible “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it. Amplified Bible “When you build a new house, you shall make a railing (parapet) around your [flat] roof, so that you do not bring the guilt of [innocent] blood on your house if someone falls from it. Christian Standard Bible If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it. Holman Christian Standard Bible If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it. 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And whenever you build a new house, make a railing for your roof that a man will not fall from it and blood would be in your household. Brenton Septuagint Translation If thou shouldest build a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring blood-guiltiness upon thy house, if one should in any wise fall from it. Contemporary English Version If you build a house, make sure to put a low wall around the edge of the flat roof. Then if someone falls off the roof and is killed, it won't be your fault. Douay-Rheims Bible When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong. English Revised 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation Whenever you build a new house, put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you won't be responsible for a death at your home if someone falls off the roof. Good News Translation "When you build a new house, be sure to put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you will not be responsible if someone falls off and is killed. International Standard Version "When you build a new house, install a parapet along your roof so that if someone falls from the roof, you won't bring guilt of bloodshed on your house." JPS Tanakh 1917 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. Literal Standard Version When you build a new house, then you have made a parapet for your roof, and you do not put blood on your house when one falls from it. Majority Standard Bible 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. New American Bible When you build a new house, put a parapet around the roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt upon your house if someone falls off. NET Bible If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it. New Revised Standard Version When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof; otherwise you might have bloodguilt on your house, if anyone should fall from it. New Heart English Bible When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you do not bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there. Webster's Bible Translation When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayest not bring blood upon thy house, if any man shall 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. 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Various Laws…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. 8If 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. 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.… Cross References Deuteronomy 22:7 You 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. Deuteronomy 22:9 Do 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. 1 Samuel 9:25 And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house. 2 Samuel 11:2 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. Treasury of Scripture When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood on your house, if any man fall from there. Exodus 21:28-36 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 22:6 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. Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. thy roof 2 Samuel 11:2 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. Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? Jeremiah 19:13 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. thou bring Ezekiel 3:18,20 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand… Ezekiel 32:2-9 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers… Matthew 18:6,7 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea… Jump to Previous Battlement Blood Bloodguilt Bloodshed Build Buildest Building House Mayest New Parapet Railing Roof Someone Thence WiseJump to Next Battlement Blood Bloodguilt Bloodshed Build Buildest Building House Mayest New Parapet Railing Roof Someone Thence WiseDeuteronomy 22 1. Of humanity toward brothers5. The sex is to be distinguished by apparel 6. The bird is not to be taken with her young ones 8. The house must have battlements 9. Confusion is to be avoided 12. Tassels upon the vesture 13. The punishment of him who slanders his wife 22. of adultery 23. of rape 28. of fornication 30. of incest (8) When thou buildest a new house.--Obviously the Law refers to houses with flat roofs, upon which it was customary to walk (1Samuel 9:25-26; 2Samuel 11:2).Verse 8. - Still less was human life to be exposed to danger through neglect of proper precautions. The houses in Palestine, as in other parts of the East, had flat roofs, and, as these were much frequented by the inhabitants for various purposes (cf. Joshua 2:6; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 18:24; Nehemiah 8:16; Matthew 10:27; Acts 10:9), it was necessary that a battlement or balustrade should surround the roof, in order to prevent persons falling over. Hence the direction here given. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction you build תִבְנֶה֙ (ṯiḇ·neh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 1129: To build a new חָדָ֔שׁ (ḥā·ḏāš) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 2319: New house, בַּ֣יִת (ba·yiṯ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1004: A house you are to construct וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ (wə·‘ā·śî·ṯā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make a railing מַעֲקֶ֖ה (ma·‘ă·qeh) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4624: A parapet around your roof, לְגַגֶּ֑ךָ (lə·ḡag·ge·ḵā) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1406: A roof, the top of an altar so that you do not וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no bring תָשִׂ֤ים (ṯā·śîm) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set bloodguilt דָּמִים֙ (dā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed on your house בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָ (bə·ḇê·ṯe·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1004: A house if כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction someone יִפֹּ֥ל (yip·pōl) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5307: To fall, lie falls הַנֹּפֵ֖ל (han·nō·p̄êl) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5307: To fall, lie from it. מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ (mim·men·nū) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of Links Deuteronomy 22:8 NIVDeuteronomy 22:8 NLT Deuteronomy 22:8 ESV Deuteronomy 22:8 NASB Deuteronomy 22:8 KJV Deuteronomy 22:8 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 22:8 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 22:8 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 22:8 French Bible Deuteronomy 22:8 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house then (Deut. 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