Exodus 22:6 (KJV)

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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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Cross-references

so that the stacks of corn. Re 14:4 Re 14:5 2Sa 14:30 2Sa 14:31

he that kindled the fire. Ex 22:9 Ex 22:12 Ex 21:33 Ex 21:34

If fire break out.Mr. Harmer observes, that it is a common custom in the East to set the dry herbage on fire; which fires, from want of care, often produce great damage. Hence a law to guard against such evils was highly expedient.

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