Deuteronomy 22:8

Protection and safety Justice

⁶ If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

⁷ But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

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.

⁹ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

¹⁰ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Mark 2:4
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
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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.
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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.
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Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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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.
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1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
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Acts 10:9
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
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Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
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