If a builder builds a house, and that house collapses and kills the owner's son, the builder's son will be put to death.If a doctor operates on a patient and the patient dies, the doctor's hand will be cut off.If he breaks another man's bone, break his own bone. If he knocks out another man's tooth, knock out his own tooth. If a man puts out the eye of another man, put his own eye out. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.If he doesn't have any money to pay with, he will be put to death. If a thief steals a cow, a sheep, a donkey, a pig, or a goat, he will pay ten times what it is worth.But if he has done something evil twice, his father can throw him out. If the son has done some great evil to his father, his father must forgive him the first time.If the reasons are not good, the man can't throw his son out. If a man wants to throw his son out of the house, he has to go before a judge and say, "I don't want my son to live in my house any more." The judge will find out the reasons.If someone is careless when watering his fields, and he floods someone else's by accident, he will pay for the grain he has ruined.If someone cuts down a tree on someone else's land, he will pay for it.
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You can read some of the laws from the Code of Hammurabi, which I found listed online what do you think about these laws? Hammurabi wanted to be known as a fair and just ruler.
In this way the laws could not be changed and were posted for all to see, though few people could read. The laws were carved on 8 foot stones, called steles, and placed in the cities of his empire. Hammurabi is best known for a set of laws he gave to his empire known as the Code of Hammurabi. The laws are written below the figures in cuneiform using the Akkadian language. The fingernail shows Hammurabi standing, receiving the laws from the seated sun-god, Shamash. Here is a replica of one of the Steles discovered with the Code of Hammurabi, it is meant to resemble an index finger.