Quoting%20commentary for Bava Kamma 120:25

דלא שבק להו לאחלופי

Now on the view that he wanted to burn them<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the stacks of barley belonging to the Israelites without repaying them with the lentils of the enemy. ');">³⁷</span> down, we can quite understand why it is written,<i> But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 12. This would show that he did not let his warriors burn the stacks as this was not permissible by strict law. ');">⁴⁰</span>

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