Deuteronomy 22:8

Modern English Version

When you build a new house, you must make a guard rail for your roof so that you bring no blood guilt on your house, should anyone fall from there.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

One evening when David arose from his bed and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

Exodus 22:6

If fire breaks out and catches in thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field are consumed, then he who started the fire must surely make restitution.

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle of the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you all have gone up to the housetops,

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled as the place of Topheth, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered. But his blood I will require at your hand.

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.

Mark 2:4

When they could not come near Him due to the crowding, they uncovered the roof where He was. When they had broken it open, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

Acts 10:9

The next day as they went on their journey and drew near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray about the sixth hour.

Romans 14:13

Therefore let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather determine not to put a stumbling block or an obstacle in a brother’s way.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God,

Deuteronomy 22:7

You must certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

Deuteronomy 22:9

You must not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seeds, or the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard will be defiled.

Philippians 1:10

that you may approve things that are excellent so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from all appearances of evil.

1 Samuel 9:25

When they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul up on the roof.