 | Jonathan Edwards - 1858 - 726 pages
...person should fall off and be killed. Deut xxii. 8, " When thou buildest a new house then thou shall make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not...blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence." And certainly we ought to take the like care that we do not fall into sin ; which carries in it eternal... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...by Bev. Martin S, Howard, Pastor of the Congregational Church, DEUT. xxn, 8.— When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for...blood upon thine house if any man fall from thence. The ancient style of architecture explains this passage, and exhibits its wisdom and its humanity.... | |
 | William McClure Thomson - 1859 - 570 pages
...neck, I suppose. As it was, I made a desperate stumble, and was excessively frightened. January 26th. roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house if any man fall from thence. This ordinance ought still to be enforced by law wherever the roofs are flat, and resorted to for business,... | |
 | Henry Lamm - 1923 - 356 pages
...where people, in the cool of the night habitually slept on their own housetops. "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence." Deut. 20:8. The modern idea of the necessity of guardrails... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1923 - 820 pages
...sight presented, and is an unwarranted interference with the course of nature. V. 8. When thou buildest a parapet, or railing, along the edge of the flat roof, as they are customary in the Orient, that thou... | |
 | National Safety Council - 1924 - 1180 pages
...Deuteronomy, twenty-second Chapter, eighth verse. "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shall make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not...blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence." King Solomon, of Israel, gave the following wisdom which is found in the third chapter Proverbs, Verses... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1923 - 824 pages
...sight presented, and is an unwarranted interference with the course of nature. V. 8. When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, a parapet, or railing, along the edge of the flat roof, as they are customary in the Orient, that thou... | |
 | 1925 - 872 pages
...it may be well with thee. and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 |f When thou buildest a newhouse, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that...blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. 9 |f Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown,... | |
 | Ernest Henry Short - 1925 - 628 pages
...decorated battlements. The command in Deuteronomy xxii., 8, will be remembered : " When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for...bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall thence." The temple-tower was a prominent object in the lay-out of an Assyrian or Babylonian city,... | |
 | Ernest Henry Short - 1926 - 562 pages
...command in Deuteronomy xxii., 8, will be remembered : " When thou buildest a new house, then thou shall make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall thence." The temple-tower was a prominent object in the lay-out of an Assyrian or Babylonian city,... | |
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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. 
