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.

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.
HAMMURABI

Field Gardening Himself Land Pay Plant Production Return Slave Time
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
HAMMURABI

Governement Powerful Protection Responsibility
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.
HAMMURABI

Build Creation Death Fall Home Kill
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled.
HAMMURABI

Creation Settle State Togetherness
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
HAMMURABI

Man Myself Rank
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
HAMMURABI

Myself Old Peace Wisdom
If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
HAMMURABI

Build Fall Home Kill
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
HAMMURABI

Destroy Eyes Himself Man

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