Exodus 22:6

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:9 : 9 In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.
  • Exod 22:12 : 12 But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.
  • Judg 15:4-5 : 4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. 5 He lit the torches and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
  • 2 Sam 14:30-31 : 30 So he said to his servants,“Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s portion of the field on fire. 31 Then Joab got up and came to Absalom’s house. He said to him,“Why did your servants set my portion of field on fire?”
  • Exod 21:33-34 : 33 “If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:1-5
    5 verses
    85%

    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

    2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

    3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.

    5“If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

  • Exod 22:7-15
    9 verses
    79%

    7“If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

    8If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges to see whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

    9In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

    11then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

    12But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

    13If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

    14“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

    15If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

  • Lev 6:2-5
    4 verses
    76%

    2“When a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,

    3or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin–

    4when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

    5or anything about which he swears falsely. He must restore it in full and add one fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty.

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Exod 21:34-36
    3 verses
    74%

    34the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.

    35If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

    36Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.

  • Job 22:20
    73%

    20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • Job 31:12
    73%

    12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

  • Prov 6:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

    28Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

  • Prov 6:31
    73%

    31Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

  • Job 20:18
    71%

    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

  • Lev 24:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him–

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth– just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

  • Prov 25:22
    70%

    22for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

  • Exod 21:30
    70%

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

  • Lev 27:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price and it will belong to him.

    20If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

  • Judg 15:5
    70%

    5He lit the torches and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

  • Amos 5:6
    70%

    6Seek the LORD so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.

  • Heb 6:8
    70%

    8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

  • Deut 22:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

    2If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

  • Josh 7:15
    69%

    15The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

  • Exod 22:26
    69%

    26If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

  • Ps 83:14
    69%

    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Num 5:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7then he must confess his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation, add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.

    8But if the individual has no close relative to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

  • 2 Sam 14:30
    69%

    30So he said to his servants,“Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s portion of the field on fire.

  • Job 24:6
    69%

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Lev 25:27
    69%

    27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

  • Lev 19:9
    69%

    9Leaving the Gleanings“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

  • Jer 21:14
    69%

    14But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the LORD.‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”

  • Lev 27:17
    69%

    17If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,