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.

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“When you build a new house, you shall make a [a]parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring guilt for bloodshed on your house if anyone falls from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:8 I.e., a protective railing