Deuteronomy 22:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.

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  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And it happened one evening that 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 behold.
  • Isa 22:1 : 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?
  • Jer 19:13 : 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, 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.
  • Matt 10:27 : 27 What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
  • Mark 2:4 : 4 And when they could not come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed on which the paralyzed man lay.
  • Acts 10:9 : 9 On the next day, as they went on their journey and neared the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
  • Exod 22:6 : 6 If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that stacked grain or standing grain or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
  • Exod 21:28-36 : 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman, and they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted. 29 But if the ox was known to gore in time past, and its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it in, and it kills a man or woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life whatever is imposed on him. 31 Whether it has gored a son or a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 32 If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. 35 If one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and the dead ox they shall also divide. 36 Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But whoever offends one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him that a millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of offenses! For it must be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
  • Ezek 3:18 : 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 man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
  • Ezek 3:20 : 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.
  • Ezek 32:2-9 : 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are like a whale in the seas; and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. 3 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net. 4 Then will I leave you upon the land, I will cast you out upon the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to remain upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you. 5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. 6 I will also water with your blood the land where you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you. 7 And when I extinguish you, I will cover the sky, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD. 9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
  • Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.
  • Rom 14:13 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may approve things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ;
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstain from every form of evil.

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  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

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  • Matt 24:17
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    17Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

  • Deut 22:7
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    7But you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

  • Deut 28:30
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    15And let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house:

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    27Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.

  • 1 Chr 22:8
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    8But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, You have shed much blood and have made great wars; you shall not build a house unto my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

  • Josh 2:19
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    19And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

  • Hab 2:9-12
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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

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    12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

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    2If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodshed for him.

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    28Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

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    31If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:

  • Amos 6:11
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    11For behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

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    12You shall make tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

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    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

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    17A person who does violence to the blood of anyone shall flee to the pit; let no one stop him.

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    8If the thief is not found, then the owner of the house shall be brought to the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor's goods.

  • 1 Kgs 8:19
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    19Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come from your body, he shall build the house for my name.

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    18He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

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    1Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

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    12Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?'

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    33And if a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

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    48He is like a man who built a house, and dug deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

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    5Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

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    10And it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and good cities, which you did not build,

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