The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
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Field Gardening Himself Land Pay Plant Production Return Slave Time
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
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Build Creation Death Fall Home Kill
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
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Man Myself Rank
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled.
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Creation Settle State Togetherness
If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
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Build Fall Home Kill
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
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Destroy Eyes Himself Man
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
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Myself Old Peace Wisdom
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
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Governement Powerful Protection Responsibility

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