Document C: Hammurabi’s Code—Society The following selections from Hammurabi’s Code discuss rules for Babylonian society. As you read, pay attention to how society was structured. Was everyone treated equally? 117. If any one fails to pay a debt, and sells himself, his wife, his son, or daughter for money or give them away for forced labor: they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them and in the fourth year they shall be set free. 138. If a man wishes to separate from his wife who has borne him no children, he shall give her the amount of her purchase money and the dowry which she brought from her father's house, and let her go. 141. If a man's wife … wishes to leave it: if her husband offer her release, she may go on her way, and he gives her nothing as a gift of release. If her husband does not wish to release her, and if he take another wife, she shall remain as servant in her husband's house. 196. If a man put out the ...
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