section 249. If a man has hired an ox, and God has struck it and it has died, the man who has hired the ox shall swear before God and shall go free. section 250. If a wild bull in his charge has gored a man and caused him to die, that case has no remedy. section 251. If the ox has pushed a man, by pushing has made known his vice, and he has not blunted his horn, has not shut up his ox, and that ox has gored a man of gentle birth and caused him to die, he shall pay half a mina of silver. section 252. If a gentleman's servant, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. section 253. If a man has hired a man to reside in his field and has furnished him seed, has entrusted him the oxen and harnessed them for cultivating the field--if that man has stolen the corn or plants, and they have been seized in his hands, one shall cut off his hands. section 254. If he has taken the seed, worn out the oxen, from the seed which he has hoed he shall restore. section 255. If he has hired out the oxen of the man or has stolen the corn and has not caused it to grow in the field, that man one shall put him to account and he shall measure out sixty _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_ of land. section 256. If his compensation he is not able to pay, one shall remove the oxen from that field. section 257. If a man has hired a harvester, he shall give him eight _GUR_ of corn per year. section 258. If a man has hired an ox-driver, he shall give him six _GUR_ of corn per year. section 259. If a man has stolen a watering machine from the meadow, he shall give five shekels of silver to the owner of the watering machine. section 260. If he has stolen a watering bucket or a harrow, he shall pay three shekels of silver. section 261. If a man has hired a herdsman for the cows or a shepherd for the sheep, he shall give him eight _GUR_ of corn _per annum_. section 262. If a man, ox, or sheep to [this section is defaced]. section 263. If he has caused an ox or sheep which was given him to be lost, ox for ox, sheep for sheep, he shall render to their owner. section 264. If a herdsman who has had cows or sheep given him to shepherd, has received his hire, whatever was agreed, and his heart was contented, has diminished the cows, diminished the sheep, lessened the offspring, he shall give offspring and produce according to the tenour of his bonds. section 265. If a shepherd to whom cows and sheep have been given him to breed, has falsified and changed their price, or has sold them, one shall put him to account, and he shall render cows and sheep to their owner tenfold what he has stolen. section 266. If in a sheepfold a stroke of God has taken place or a lion has killed, the shepherd shall purge himself before God, and the accident to the fold the owner of the fold shall face it.