Verse 8
Deuteronomy 22:8
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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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.
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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Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt s...
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And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to...
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And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with...
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Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: t...
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5
A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garmen...
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6
If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones...
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thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well w...
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When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not...
9
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed...
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10
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
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11
Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
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12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
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13
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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14
and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woma...
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then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s...
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and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he...
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and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens...
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And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
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and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, be...
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20
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
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then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shal...
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22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man...
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23
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and...
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then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with...
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But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with h...
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but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as whe...
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for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with he...
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then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she...
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A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
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