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Deuteronomy 22:8

Protection and safetyJustice

6 If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

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.

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.

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.

10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

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BSB
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.
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.
WEB
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.
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.
DARBY
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it.
BLB
When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring blood on your house if anyone falls down from it.
ÅB
Når du bygger et nytt hus, så skal du gjøre et rekkverk om taket, for at du ikke skal føre blodskyld over ditt hus om noen faller ned derfra.
OTB
Når du bygger et nytt hus, må du lage et rekkverk for taket ditt, så du ikke bringer blodskyld over ditt hus hvis noen faller ned fra det.
B1930
Når du bygger et nytt hus, så skal du gjøre et rekkverk om taket, forat du ikke skal føre blodskyld over ditt hus om nogen faller ned derfra.

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  • Mark 2:4

    Since 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.

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  • Jeremiah 19:13

    The 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.”

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  • 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.

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  • Isaiah 22:1

    This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

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  • Exodus 21:28–36

    If 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.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:22

    Abstain from every form of evil.

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  • Acts 10:9

    The 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.

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  • Matthew 10:27

    What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

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