Deuteronomy 22:8
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Context
This verse from Deuteronomy Chapter 22 connects to 10 cross-references. Laws require returning lost animals or objects to their owners and helping a neighbor's fallen animal. Cross-dressing is prohibited; bird nesting rules protect the mother bird. Rooftop parapets are required; various mixtures—seeds, plow teams, cloth—are forbidden. Penalties for false accusations …
Other Translations
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.
`When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it.
If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.
Cross References
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of …
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and …
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man …
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a …
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach …
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.