World English Bible
Deuteronomy 22:8
“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.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 22
If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
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.
You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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