Verse 8
Deuteronomy 22:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י תִבְנֶה֙ בַּ֣יִת חָדָ֔שׁ וְ/עָשִׂ֥יתָ מַעֲקֶ֖ה לְ/גַגֶּ֑/ךָ וְ/לֹֽא תָשִׂ֤ים דָּמִים֙ בְּ/בֵיתֶ֔/ךָ כִּֽי יִפֹּ֥ל הַ/נֹּפֵ֖ל מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ
English Translation
When you build a new house, you shall make a railing for your roof, so that you do not bring blood upon your house if someone falls from it.
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Chapter 22 Context
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And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they s...
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Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment, and with every thing that is thy br...
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If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but...
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If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitt...
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But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and t...
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Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
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Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together.
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Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered...
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If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,
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And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman...
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Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the a...
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And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,
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He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold...
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And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,
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Condemning him besides in a hundred sides of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, bec...
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But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:
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If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with he...
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Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, becau...
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But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and taking hold of her, lie with her, he...
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The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death : for as a robber riseth against his...
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She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her.
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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the...
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He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sides of silver, and shall have her...
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No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.
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