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Exodus 22:6

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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 15:4-5; 2 Samuel 14:30-31

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

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