God Continued to Give Rules for his People Inter Se
“If men strive together and one smites the other with a
stone or with his fist so that the man lives and is confined to his bed, and
later recovers and is able to walk about even limping with the aid of a staff,
the person who did the injury shall be cleared; but shall be liable to pay
compensation for the loss of time and to do so until the injured man is
completely healed.
If a man
smites his servant or his maid and kills him, he shall be punished; but if the
servant lives a day or two, the master shall not be punished; for the loss of
the servant is his financial loss.
If men
strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet
no mischief follows, they shall be punished according to the wishes of the
woman’s husband or as ordered by a judge. If mischief follows, that is to say
if the woman dies, then the law of life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,
hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, stripe for stripe. shall
apply.
If a man
smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perishes, he
shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. And if he strikes out the tooth of
his man-servant or his maid-servant, in either case the servant shall go free.
If an Ox
gores a man or a woman that they die, the ox shall be stoned to death and its
flesh be not eaten; but its owner shall go free; but if the ox was accustomed
in times past to push with its horn, and the owner was aware of it, and did not
keep it under proper control, and it subsequently kills a man or a woman the ox
shall be stoned, and the owner shall be put to death. However, if the owner of the ox was adjudged
to pay compensation for the injury caused by his ox, he may redeem his life by
paying the amount so adjudged as compensation.
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