"Men were also allowed to take another wife if their first wife bore them no children (though the law did stipulate that he must continue to care for her)."

"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,”…"

"If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its …"

"Were a child to strike a father, the child's hands were cut off."

"Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off."