200

If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ]

201

If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.

202

If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

203

If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.

204

If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money.

205

If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.

206

If during a quarrel one man strike another and wound him, then he shall swear, "I did not injure him wittingly," and pay the physicians.

207

If the man die of his wound, he shall swear similarly, and if he (the deceased) was a free-born man, he shall pay half a mina in money.

208

If he was a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

209

If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

210

If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.

211

If a woman of the free class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five shekels in money.

212

If this woman die, he shall pay half a mina.

213

If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in money.

214

If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

215

If a physician make a large incision with an operating knife and cure it, or if he open a tumor (over the eye) with an operating knife, and saves the eye, he shall receive ten shekels in money.

216

If the patient be a freed man, he receives five shekels.

217

If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels.

218

If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.

219

If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.

220

If he had opened a tumor with the operating knife, and put out his eye, he shall pay half his value.

221

If a physician heal the broken bone or diseased soft part of a man, the patient shall pay the physician five shekels in money.

222

If he were a freed man he shall pay three shekels.

223

If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.

224

If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as a fee.

225

If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value.

226

If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

227

If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave, he shall be put to death, and buried in his house. The barber shall swear: "I did not mark him wittingly," and shall be guiltless.

228

If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

229

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230

If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231

If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232

If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house fromhis own means.

233

If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

234

If a shipbuilder build a boat of sixty gur for a man, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels in money.

235

If a shipbuilder build a boat for some one, and do not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense. The tight boat he shall give to the boat owner.

236

If a man rent his boat to a sailor, and the sailor is careless, and the boat is wrecked or goes aground, the sailor shall give the owner of the boat another boat as compensation.

237

If a man hire a sailor and his boat, and provide it with corn, clothing, oil and dates, and other things of the kind needed for fitting it: if the sailor is careless, the boat is wrecked, and its contents ruined, then the sailor shall compensate for the boat which was wrecked and all in it that he ruined.

238

If a sailor wreck any one's ship, but saves it, he shall pay the half of its value in money.

239

If a man hire a sailor, he shall pay him six gur of corn per year.

240

If a merchantman run against a ferryboat, and wreck it, themaster of the ship that was wrecked shall seek justice before God; the master of the merchantman, which wrecked the ferryboat, must compensate the owner for the boat and all that he ruined.

241

If any one impresses an ox for forced labor, he shall pay one-third of a mina in money.

242

If any one hire oxen for a year, he shall pay four gur of corn for plow-oxen.

243

As rent of herd cattle he shall pay three gur of corn to the owner.

244

If any one hire an ox or an ass, and a lion kill it in the field, the loss is upon its owner.

245

If any one hire oxen, and kill them by bad treatment or blows, he shall compensate the owner, oxen for oxen.

246

If a man hire an ox, and he break its leg or cut the ligament of its neck, he shall compensate the owner with ox for ox.

247

If any one hire an ox, and put out its eye, he shall pay the owner one-half of its value.

248

If any one hire an ox, and break off a horn, or cut off its tail, or hurt its muzzle, he shall pay one-fourth of its value in money.

249

If any one hire an ox, and God strike it that it die, the man who hired it shall swear by God and be considered guiltless.

250

If while an ox is passing on the street (market) some one push it, and kill it, the owner can set up no claim in the suit (against the hirer).

251

If an ox be a goring ox, and it shown that he is a gorer, and he do not bind his horns, or fasten the ox up, and the ox gore a free-born man and kill him, the owner shall pay one-half a mina in money.

252

If he kill a man's slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

253

If any one agree with another to tend his field, give him seed,entrust a yoke of oxen to him, and bind him to cultivate the field,if he steal the corn or plants, and take them for himself, hishands shall be hewn off.

254

If he take the seed-corn for himself, and do not use the yoke of oxen, he shall compensate him for the amount of the seed-corn.

255

If he sublet the man's yoke of oxen or steal the seed-corn, planting nothing in the field, he shall be convicted, and for each one hundred gan he shall pay sixty gur of corn.

256

If his community will not pay for him, then he shall be placed in that field with the cattle (at work).

257

If any one hire a field laborer, he shall pay him eight gur of corn per year.

258

If any one hire an ox-driver, he shall pay him six gur of corn per year.

259

If any one steal a water-wheel from the field, he shall pay five shekels in money to its owner.

260

If any one steal a shadduf (used to draw water from the river or canal) or a plow, he shall pay three shekels in money.

261

If any one hire a herdsman for cattle or sheep, he shall pay him eight gur of corn per annum.

262

If any one, a cow or a sheep . . .

263

If he kill the cattle or sheep that were given to him, he shall compensate the owner with cattle for cattle and sheep for sheep.

264

If a herdsman, to whom cattle or sheep have been entrusted for watching over, and who has received his wages as agreed upon, and is satisfied, diminish the number of the cattle or sheep, or make the increase by birth less, he shall make good the increase or profit which was lost in the terms of settlement.

265

If a herdsman, to whose care cattle or sheep have been entrusted, be guilty of fraud and make false returns of the natural increase, or sell them for money, then shall he be convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss.

266

If the animal be killed in the stable by God ( an accident), or if a lion kill it, the herdsman shall declare his innocence before God, and the owner bears the accident in the stable.

267

If the herdsman overlook something, and an accident happen in the stable, then the herdsman is at fault for the accident which he has caused in the stable, and he must compensate the owner for the cattle or sheep.

268

If any one hire an ox for threshing, the amount of the hire is twenty ka of corn.

269

If he hire an ass for threshing, the hire is twenty ka of corn.

270

If he hire a young animal for threshing, the hire is ten ka of corn.

271

If any one hire oxen, cart and driver, he shall pay one hundred and eighty ka of corn per day.

272

If any one hire a cart alone, he shall pay forty ka of corn per day.

273

If any one hire a day laborer, he shall pay him from the New Year until the fifth month (April to August, when days are long and the work hard) six gerahs in money per day; from the sixth month to the end of the year he shall give him five gerahs per day.

274

If any one hire a skilled artizan, he shall pay as wages of the . . . five gerahs, as wages of the potter five gerahs, of a tailor five gerahs, of . . . gerahs, . . . of a ropemaker four gerahs, of . . .gerahs, of a mason . . . gerahs per day.

275

If any one hire a ferryboat, he shall pay three gerahs in moneyper day.

276

If he hire a freight-boat, he shall pay two and one-half gerahs per day.

277

If any one hire a ship of sixty gur, he shall pay one-sixth of a shekel in money as its hire per day.

278

If any one buy a male or female slave, and before a month has elapsed the benu-disease be developed, he shall return the slave to the seller, and receive the money which he had paid.

279

If any one by a male or female slave, and a third party claim it, the seller is liable for the claim.

280

If while in a foreign country a man buy a male or female slave belonging to another of his own country; if when he return home the owner of the male or female slave recognize it: if the male or female slave be a native of the country, he shall give them back without any money.

281

If they are from another country, the buyer shall declare the amount of money paid therefor to the merchant, and keep the male or female slave. If they are from another country, the buyer shall declare the amount of money paid therefor to the merchant, and keep the male or female slave.

282

If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.