Translations
Modern
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.
Traditional
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.
Literal
When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring blood on your house if anyone falls down from it.
Latin
Cum ædificaveris domum novam, facies murum tecti per circuitum: ne effundatur sanguis in domo tua, et sis reus labente alio, et in præceps ruente.
Original
Hebrew
English
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.
Notes
Theme notes and profiles
Glossary
Archaeology and the Bible Architecture Battlement Biblical Concept of Law Covenant Deuteronomy, Book of Parapet
Topics
Battlements: On the Roofs of Houses Homicide: Felonious, or Murder House: Architecture of Battlements Required in Mosaic Law Houses: The Flat Roofs of Surrounded with Battlements