8 If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
Focused Passage
Deuteronomy 22:8
Covenant Order: Neighbor, Creation, and Sexual Holiness
The chapter moves from concrete acts of community care for neighbor and creature (vv. 1–8), through laws protecting created distinctions in the natural order (vv. 9–12), into a sustained legislation of sexual holiness, marital fidelity, and covenant purity (vv. 13–30), grounding neighbor-love and sexual ethics together in the covenant order Israel bears before God.
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Verse 8
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If כִּ֤י H3588 Conjunction you build תִבְנֶה֙ H1129 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular a new חָדָ֔שׁ H2319 Adjective - masculine singular house בַּ֣יִת H1004 Noun - masculine singular you are to construct וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ H6213 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular a railing מַעֲקֶ֖ה H4624 Noun - masculine singular around your roof לְגַגֶּ֑ךָ H1406 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular so that you do not וְלֹֽא־ H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle bring תָשִׂ֤ים H7760 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular bloodguilt דָּמִים֙ H1818 Noun - masculine plural on your house בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָ H1004 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular if כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction someone falls יִפֹּ֥ל H5307 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular . . . הַנֹּפֵ֖ל H5307 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular from it מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ס H4480 Preposition | third person masculine singular