If a member of the awilum class struck someone of equal status, they would pay one mina of silver. But if they struck a member of the mushkenum class, they would pay only ten shekels.
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"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."
"If a physician makes a large incision with an operating knife and kills the patient, his hands shall be cut off."
"If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off."
"If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him."
"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."
Laws from the Code of Hammurabi, demonstrating class distinctions in penalties
Date: c. 1754 BC
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