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.(A)

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“When you build a new house then[a] you shall make a parapet wall[b] for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:8 Hebrew “and”
  2. Deuteronomy 22:8 Or “fence/rail”
  3. Deuteronomy 22:8 Literally “if should fall the falling from it”