Ulangan 22:8

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.

Ulangan 22:2

22:2 If the owner ³  does not live ⁴  near you or you do not know who the owner is, ⁵  then you must corral the animal ⁶  at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

1 Samuel 11:2

11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”

Yeremia 19:13

19:13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies ⁷  just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars ⁸  and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”

Yeremia 32:29

32:29 The Babylonian soldiers ⁹  that are attacking this city will break into it and set it on fire. They will burn it down along with the houses where people have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods on their rooftops. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”

² tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”

³ tn Heb “your brother” (also later in this verse).

⁴ tn Heb “is not.” The idea of “residing” is implied.

⁵ tn Heb “and you do not know him.”

⁶ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the ox or sheep mentioned in v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn The words “by dead bodies” is not in the text but is implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “the host of heaven.”

⁹ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

¹⁰ sn Compare Jer 19:13.