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<strong>Hammurabi's Laws dealing with bodily harm from strike or other activity. [notice that the grammar of verbs is present in King\s translation]</strong> <p> 196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. [ An eye for an eye ] <br> 197. If he breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken. <br> 198. If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina. <br> 199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value. <br> 200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ] <br> 201. If he knocks out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina. <br> 202. If any one strikes the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public. <br> 203. If a free-born man strikes the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina. <br> 204. If a freed man strikes the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money. <br> 205. If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off. <br> 206. If during a quarrel one man strike another and wound him, then he shall swear, “I did not injure him wittingly,” and pay the physicians. <br> 207. If the man dies of his wound, he shall swear similarly, and if he (the deceased) was a free-born man, he shall pay half a mina in money. <br> 208. If he was a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a mina. <br> 209. If a man strikes a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss. <br> 210. If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death. <br> 211. If a woman of the free class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five shekels in money. <br> 212. If this woman dies, he shall pay half a mina. <br> 213. If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in money. <br> 214. If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina. </p>
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