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When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
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Verse 8. Battlement. This precaution was necessary, because all their houses had flat tops; and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon them. Challoner.—King Ochozias had the misfortune to fall from the top of his house, (4 Kennicott. 1:2,) and David saw Bethsabee when he was walking on the roof of his palace, 2 Kennicott. 11:2. Saul slept at the top of Samuel’s house, 1 Kennicott. 9:25. See Joshua 2:6. Matthew 10:27. Bible.
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