Éxodo 22:6

6 »Si alguien prende fuego a espinos y el fuego se sale de control y se extiende al campo de un vecino, y por lo tanto, destruye las gavillas de grano o lo que está por cosecharse o todos los cultivos, el que encendió el fuego tendrá que pagar por la cosecha perdida.

Éxodo 22:6 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 22:6

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" if the fire passes over a fence four cubits high, or a public road, or a river, he is free ^F14;''

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 ^F15, the four fathers' fountains, or sources of damages.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Bartenora in Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect. 4.
F15 Ib. c. 1. sect. 1.

Éxodo 22:6 In-Context

4 Si alguien roba un buey o un burro o una oveja, y se encuentra el animal en su poder, entonces el ladrón tendrá que pagar el doble del valor del animal robado.

5 »Si un animal pasta en un campo o en un viñedo, y el dueño deja que se meta a pastar en el campo de otro, el dueño del animal tendrá que compensar al dueño del campo con lo mejor de su cosecha de grano o de uvas.

6 »Si alguien prende fuego a espinos y el fuego se sale de control y se extiende al campo de un vecino, y por lo tanto, destruye las gavillas de grano o lo que está por cosecharse o todos los cultivos, el que encendió el fuego tendrá que pagar por la cosecha perdida.

7 »Supongamos que alguien entrega dinero o bienes a un vecino para que se los guarde en un lugar seguro, y al vecino se los roban de su casa. Si se atrapa al ladrón, la compensación consistirá en el doble del valor de lo robado.

8 Pero si no se encuentra al ladrón, el vecino tendrá que presentarse ante Dios, y él determinará
si el vecino es quien robó los bienes.