Deuteronomy 22:8
Context22:8 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.
Deuteronomy 28:30
Context28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 3 her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use 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.”
[28:30] 3 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.