Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off.
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"Men were also allowed to take another wife if their first wife bore them no children (though the law did stipulate that he must continue to care for her)."
"If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off."
"If a man's wife be surprised (in flagrante delicto) with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves."
"If a woman neglected and left her husband, she might be cast into the water; if a husband neglected his wife, his only punishment was that she could leave him."
"If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him."
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