Hammurabi — "Cutting off hands was another popular punishment if, for example, a son struck h…"
Cutting off hands was another popular punishment if, for example, a son struck his father, or a field hand stole the crops they were tending.
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"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."
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