Jacob And The Law Code of Hammurabi

The Law Code of Hammurabi:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM

Law codes mentioned:

145
If a man take a wife, and she bear him no children, and he intend to take another wife: if he take this second wife, and bring her into the house, this second wife shall not be allowed equality with his wife.

146
If a man take a wife and she give this man a maid-servant as wife and she bear him children, and then this maid assume equality with the wife: because she has borne him children her master shall not sell her for money, but he may keep her as a slave, reckoning her among the maid-servants.

147
If she have not borne him children, then her mistress may sell her for money.

148
If a man take a wife, and she be seized by disease, if he then desire to take a second wife he shall not put away his wife, who has been attacked by disease, but he shall keep her in the house which he has built and support her so long as she lives.

57
If a shepherd, without the permission of the owner of the field, and without the knowledge of the owner of the sheep, lets the sheep into a field to graze, then the owner of the field shall harvest his crop, and the shepherd, who had pastured his flock there without permission of the owner of the field, shall pay to the owner twenty gur of corn for every ten gan.

58
If after the flocks have left the pasture and been shut up in the common fold at the city gate, any shepherd let them into a field and they graze there, this shepherd shall take possession of the field which he has allowed to be grazed on, and at the harvest he must pay sixty gur of corn for every ten gan.

If any one hire a herdsman for cattle or sheep, he shall pay him eight gur of corn per annum.

262
If any one, a cow or a sheep . . .

263
If he kill the cattle or sheep that were given to him, he shall compensate the owner with cattle for cattle and sheep for sheep.

264
If a herdsman, to whom cattle or sheep have been entrusted for watching over, and who has received his wages as agreed upon, and is satisfied, diminish the number of the cattle or sheep, or make the increase by birth less, he shall make good the increase or profit which was lost in the terms of settlement.

265
If a herdsman, to whose care cattle or sheep have been entrusted, be guilty of fraud and make false returns of the natural increase, or sell them for money, then shall he be convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss.

266
If the animal be killed in the stable by God ( an accident), or if a lion kill it, the herdsman shall declare his innocence before God, and the owner bears the accident in the stable.

267
If the herdsman overlook something, and an accident happen in the stable, then the herdsman is at fault for the accident which he has caused in the stable, and he must compensate the owner for the cattle or sheep.

Genesis 31:
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0131.htm

Other lawcodes:

The Laws of Manu, c. 1500 BCE

The Code of the Assura, .200 BCE -200 CE
http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/ancient/1075assyriancode.html

The Law Code (Old Hittite)
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ietexts/hit/hit-4-X.html

Laws of Eshnunna
The laws of Eshnunna
By Reuven Yaron, Eshnunna
http://books.google.com/books?id=8CVvAkZHATkC&dq=Laws+of+Eshnunna&pri...

Middle MIDDLE ASSYRIAN LAWS
http://zeus.chsdc.org/chs/files/women_property_lafont.pdf

Biblical Archeology Review :
Good as His Word Jacob manipulates justice-
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=3&...

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[Jspeed67]

you look like a fighter by the name of Jon Fitch

[ReligionThink]

Thanks! I wear small t-shirts to make myself look more built!

[Jaynagurl1]

Boy is it hard to explain this stuff to kids, about giving him their servants to have children, lol.

[squitmaa]

Judah and Tamar is another great Code of Hammurabi story. Somewhere around the 180 is the law about father hood and pregnancy and temple prostitutes. Interestingly enough I don't think the right to fill in to provide offspring for your dead brother is in Hammurabi. Maybe somewhere else.