22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail 1 around your roof to avoid being culpable 2 in the event someone should fall from it.
[22:8] 1 tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”
[22:8] 2 tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”
