"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 a man's wife is caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the water."

"If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to d…"

"Incest was punishable by burning, adulterous murder by impaling."

"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 …"