Archæology and the BibleBarton, George A. (George Aaron)
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Archæology and the Bible
Barton, George A. (George Aaron)
Bible -- Antiquities; Egypt -- Antiquities; Middle East -- Antiquities
§ 194. If a man gives his son unto a nurse and his son dies in the
hands of the nurse and the nurse substitutes another child without the
consent of the father or the mother, they shall prosecute her; because
she substituted another child without the consent of his father or his
mother they shall cut off her breast.
This law also is without Biblical parallel.
Assault and Battery
§ 195. If a son strikes his father, they shall cut off his hand.
§ 196. If a man destroys the eye of the son of a patrician, they shall
destroy his eye.
§ 197. If he breaks a man’s bone, they shall break his bone.
§ 198. If one destroys the eye of a workingman or breaks the bone of a
workingman, he shall pay 1 mana of silver.
§ 199. If one destroys the eye of a man’s slave or breaks the bone of
a man’s slave, he shall pay half his value.
§ 200. If a man knocks out the tooth of a man of his own rank, they
shall knock his tooth out.
§ 201. If one knocks out the tooth of a workingman, he shall pay ⅓ of
a mana of silver.
§ 202. If a man shall strike the private-parts of a man who is of
higher rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-hide
scourge in the assembly.
§ 203. If a patrician strikes the private-parts of a patrician of his
own rank, he shall pay 1 mana of silver.
§ 204. If a workingman strikes the private-parts of a workingman, he
shall pay 10 shekels of silver.
§ 205. If the slave of a patrician strikes the private-parts of the
son of a patrician, they shall cut off his ear.
§ 206. If a man strikes a man in a quarrel and wounds him, he shall
swear, “I did not strike with intent,” and shall pay for the
physician.
§ 207. If from the stroke he dies, he shall swear [as above], and if
it was a patrician, he shall pay ½ mana of silver.
§ 208. If it was a workingman, he shall pay ⅓ of a mana of silver.
§ 209. If a man strikes a man’s daughter and causes a miscarriage, he
shall pay 10 shekels of silver for her miscarriage.
§ 210. If that woman dies, they shall put his daughter to death.
§ 211. If through a stroke one causes a miscarriage of the daughter of
a workingman, he shall pay 5 shekels of silver.
§ 212. If that woman dies, he shall pay ½ mana of silver.
§ 213. If one strikes the slave-girl of a man and causes a
miscarriage, he shall pay 2 shekels of silver.
§ 214. If that slave-girl dies, he shall pay ⅓ of a mana of silver.
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