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Exodus 22:6

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22:6“If a fire breaks out and spreads14 to thorn bushes,15 so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started16 the fire must surely make restitution.

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Footnotes

  1. 14 Heb “if a fire goes out and finds”; “if a fire gets out of control.”
  2. 15 Thorn bushes were used for hedges between fields, but thorn bushes also burned easily, making the fire spread rapidly.
  3. 16 This is a Hiphil participle of the verb “to burn, kindle” used substantivally. This is the one who caused the fire, whether by accident or not.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“When a fire gets out of control, spreads to thornbushes, and consumes stacks of cut grain, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution for what was burned.

NLTNew Living Translation

“If you are burning thornbushes and the fire gets out of control and spreads into another person’s field, destroying the sheaves or the uncut grain or the whole crop, the one who started the fire must pay for the lost crop.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘If a fire is started and finds thorn bushes and a stack of sheaves or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire will surely make restitution.

KJV 1900King James Version

If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.