8If 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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Ifכִּ֤יH3588Conjunctionyou buildתִבְנֶה֙H1129Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singulara newחָדָ֔שׁH2319Adjective - masculine singularhouseבַּ֣יִתH1004Noun - masculine singularyou are to constructוְעָשִׂ֥יתָH6213Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singulara railingמַעֲקֶ֖הH4624Noun - masculine singulararound your roofלְגַגֶּ֑ךָH1406Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularso that you do notוְלֹֽא־H3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particlebringתָשִׂ֤יםH7760Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singularbloodguiltדָּמִים֙H1818Noun - masculine pluralon your houseבְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָH1004Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularifכִּֽי־H3588Conjunctionsomeone fallsיִפֹּ֥לH5307Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular. . .הַנֹּפֵ֖לH5307Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularfrom itמִמֶּֽנּוּ׃סH4480Preposition | third person masculine singular