Éxodo 22:6

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Cuando rompiere un fuego, y hallare espinas, y fuere quemado montón, ó haza, ó campo, el que encendió el fuego pagará lo quemado.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Si estalla un incendio y se extiende a los espinos, de modo que las mieses, amontonadas o en pie, o el campo mismo se consuman, el que encendió el fuego ciertamente hará restitución.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Cuando un fuego se extendiere y tomare espinas, y quemare gavillas amontonadas, o en pie, o campo, el que encendió el fuego pagará lo quemado.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Cuando se prendiere fuego, y al quemar espinas quemare mieses amontonadas o en pie, o campo, el que encendió el fuego pagará lo quemado.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.

so that the stacks of corn: Judges 15:4, Judges 15:5, 2 Samuel 14:30, 2 Samuel 14:31

he that kindled the fire: Exodus 22:9, Exodus 22:12, Exodus 21:33, Exodus 21:34

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 22:8 - then thou shalt Amos 5:6 - lest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; whether it be corn cut down, bound up in sheaves, and laid up in heaps or stacks, or whether it be yet growing, and not fully ripe, at least not cut down, or any other fruits of the field; if the fire that takes the thorns which are near them should reach to those, and kindle upon them and destroy them:

he that kindleth the fire, shall surely make restitution: that is, though he kindles the fire upon his own ground, yet being careless of it, it breaks out without his intention and design, and catches hold on a thorn hedge between him and his neighbour's field, and so spreads itself to the corn there, whether standing or in stacks, or to other fruits either lying or growing there; now, though he did not kindle the fire in the corn, and among the stacks or heaps of fruit in his neighbours field, yet, for his carelessness in not looking after the fire he had kindled in his own field, he was to make good all the damages his neighbour sustained hereby: the Jewish canons relating to this affair are these;

"if a man kindles a fire by the hands of a deaf man, or a fool, or a child, he is free by human judgment, but he is bound by the judgment of heaven (that is, to make restitution); if he kindles it by the hand of a knowing and understanding man, he is bound; one brings fire and another "afterwards" brings wood, he that brings the wood is bound; one brings wood and another "afterwards" brings fire, he that brings the fire is bound; "after that", another comes and blows the flame (or fire), he is bound; "but if" the wind blows it they are all free; he that kindles fire and it consumes wood or stones, or dust, he is bound, as it is said,

Exodus 22:6 "if fire break out", c. if the fire passes over a fence four cubits high, or a public road, or a river, he is free n''

those two things last mentioned, feeding on another man's field and fire, with the ox and the pit, observed in the preceding chapter, are with the Misnic doctors o, the four fathers' fountains, or sources of damages.

n Bartenora in Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect. 4. o Ib. c. 1. sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 22:6. 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 countries where great drought prevails, and the herbage is generally parched, great caution was peculiarly necessary; and a law to guard against such evils, and to punish inattention and neglect, was highly expedient. See Harmer's Observat., vol. iii., p. 310, &c.