"If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its …"

"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."

"If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove th…"

"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."

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