Exodus 22:6 “If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes st…”

Exodus 22:6

If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King 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.

World English Bible

“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

American Standard Version

If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

Geneva Bible 1599

If fire breake out, and catche in ye thornes, and the stackes of corne, or the standing corne, or the fielde be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution.

Darby Translation

— If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.

Young's Literal Translation

'When fire goeth forth, and hath found thorns, and a stack, or the standing corn, or the field, hath been consumed, he who causeth the burning doth certainly repay.

Bible in Basic English

If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

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Cross references

“so that the stacks of corn”

Judges 15:4 Judges 15:5 2 Samuel 14:30 2 Samuel 14:31

Judges 15:4 · BSB

Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

Judges 15:5 · BSB

Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

2 Samuel 14:30 · BSB

Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

2 Samuel 14:31 · BSB

Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”

“he that kindled the fire”

Exodus 22:9 Exodus 22:12 Exodus 21:33 Exodus 21:34

Exodus 22:9 · BSB

In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty…

Exodus 22:12 · BSB

But if the animal was actually stolen from the neighbor, he must make restitution to the owner.

Exodus 21:33 · BSB

If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Exodus 21:34 · BSB

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

7If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.

Read Exodus 22