Exodus 22:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you carelessly let a fire spread from your property to someone else's, you must pay the owner for any crops or fields destroyed by the fire.

Cross References

Exodus 22:12

But if the animal was stolen while in your care, you must replace it.

Exodus 22:5

If you allow any of your animals to stray from your property and graze in someone else's field or vineyard, you must repay the damage from the best part of your own harvest of grapes and grain.

Exodus 22:7

Suppose a neighbour asks you to keep some silver or other valuables, and they are stolen from your house. If the thief is caught, the thief must repay double.

Exodus 22:9

Suppose two people claim to own the same ox or donkey or sheep or piece of clothing. Then the judges must decide the case, and the guilty person will pay the owner double.

Matthew 7:16

You can tell what they are by what they do. No one picks grapes or figs from thorn bushes.