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Exd 22:6 (KJV) — 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.

Exd 22:6 (NKJV) — "If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

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	Jdg 15:4,5; 2Sa 14:30,31
he that kindled the fire	Exd 22:9,12; Exd 21:33,34