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- Exodus
- Chapter 22
- Verse 6
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.
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Gill's Exposition
If fire break out,.... Even though of itself, as Jarchi interprets it:
and catch in thorns a thorn hedge or fence, with which cornfields might be en closed:
so that the stacks of corn, or the…
Adam Clarke
If fire break out - Mr. Harmer observes that it is a common custom in the east to set the dry herbage on fire before the autumnal rains, which fires, for want of care, often do great damage: and in…
Here are the laws,
I. Concerning theft, which are these: - 1. If a man steal any cattle (in which the wealth of those times chiefly consisted), and they be found in his custody, he must restore…
Cambridge Bible
Damage done by fire spreading accidentally to another man's field. In this case compensation according to the damage done in sufficient, as no blame, or malice, attaches to the person who kindled the…
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