Deuteronomy 22:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ “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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ When you build a new house, then you shall put a railing around your [flat] roof, so that no one may fall from there and bring guilt of blood upon your house.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ Whenever you build a new house, you must build a railing for the roof so that you don’t end up with innocent blood on your hands because someone fell off of it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ When you build a new house, you shall make a wall around the roof. Otherwise, someone may slip and fall down violently, and so blood would be shed at your house, and you would be guilty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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.

Deuteronomy 22:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

Exodus 22:6

“When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire shall make full restitution.

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What has happened that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven and libations have been poured out to other gods.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give them no warning and do not speak to warn the wicked from their wicked way in order to save their lives, those wicked persons shall die for their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Matthew 10:27

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.

Mark 2:4

And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay.

Acts 10:9

About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

Romans 14:13

Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother or sister.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

Deuteronomy 22:7

Let the mother go, taking only the young for yourself, in order that it may go well with you and you may live long.

Deuteronomy 22:9

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or the whole yield will be forbidden, both the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard itself.

Philippians 1:10

to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless,

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.

1 Samuel 9:25

When they came down from the shrine into the town, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.