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Chapter 10  
     
196.
 If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
 
197.
 If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
 
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.
 
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.
 
200.
 If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
 
201.
 If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.
 
202.
 If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
 
203.
 If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.
 
204.
 If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money.
 
205.
 If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.
 
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.
 
207.
 If the man die 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.
 
208.
 If he was a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a mina.
 
209.
 If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.
 
210.
 If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.
 
211.
 If a woman of the free class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five shekels in money.
 
212.
 If this woman die, he shall pay half a mina.
 
213.
 If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in money.
 
214.
 If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina.
 
215.
 If a physician make a large incision with an operating knife and cure it, or if he open a tumor (over the eye) with an operating knife, and saves the eye, he shall receive ten shekels in money.
 
216.
 If the patient be a freed man, he receives five shekels.
 
217.
 If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels.
 
218.
 If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.
 
219.
 If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.
 
220.
 If he had opened a tumor with the operating knife, and put out his eye, he shall pay half his value.
 
221.
 If a physician heal the broken bone or diseased soft part of a man, the patient shall pay the physician five shekels in money.
 
222.
 If he were a freed man he shall pay three shekels.
 
223.
 If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.
 
224.
 If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as a fee.
 
225.
 If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value.
 
226.
 If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.
 
227.
 If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave, he shall be put to death, and buried in his house. The barber shall swear: "I did not mark him wittingly," and shall be guiltless.
 

 
 
 

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