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“If a fire breaks out and spreads to[a] thorn bushes,[b] so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started[c] the fire must surely make restitution.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:6 tn Heb “if a fire goes out and finds”; NLT “if a fire gets out of control.”
  2. Exodus 22:6 sn Thorn bushes were used for hedges between fields, but thorn bushes also burned easily, making the fire spread rapidly.
  3. Exodus 22:6 tn 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.