Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if one falls from it.
New American Standard Bible
“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
International Standard Version
"When you build a new house, install a parapet along your roof so that if someone falls from the roof, you won't bring guilt of bloodshed on your house."
A Conservative Version
When thou build a new house, then thou shall make a guard rail for thy roof, that thou not bring blood upon thy house, if any man falls from there.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“When you build a new house, you shall make a railing (parapet) around your [flat] roof, so that you do not bring the guilt of [innocent] blood on your house if someone falls from it.
Bible in Basic English
If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
When thou shalt build a new house thou shalt make a ledge to thy roof, and thou shalt not put bloods upon thy house, if he shall fall from it.
King James 2000
When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not the guilt of blood upon your house, if any man fall from there.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"When you build a new house then you shall make a parapet wall for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house {if anyone should fall from it}.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement unto the roof, that thou lade not blood upon thine house, if any man fall thereof.
NET Bible
If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.
New Heart English Bible
When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you do not bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
The Emphasized Bible
When thou buildest a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy roof, so shalt thou not treasure up blood-guiltiness against thy house, for he that is in danger of falling might fall therefrom.
Webster
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayest not bring blood upon thy house, if any man shall fall from thence.
World English Bible
When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
Youngs Literal Translation
'When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 22:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
7 You shall in every case let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may make your days longer. 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if one falls from it. 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:2
And it happened one evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Isaiah 22:1
The burden against the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have gone up to the housetops?
Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be as defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear, proclaim on the housetops.
Mark 2:4
When they could not come near to Him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where He was. And digging through, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.
Acts 10:9
On the next day, as these went on the road, and drawing near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
Exodus 22:6
If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field, is burned up, he who kindled the fire shall surely repay in full.
Exodus 21:28-36
If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall be set free.
Ezekiel 3:18
When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Ezekiel 3:20
And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and when 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.
Ezekiel 32:2-9
Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, but you were like a sea-monster. And you came out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
Matthew 18:6-7
But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.
Acts 20:26-27
Therefore I testify to you on this day that I am pure from the blood of all.
Romans 14:13
Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give no offense, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks or to the church of God;
Philippians 1:10
that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from every appearance of evil.