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.
Babylonian king, code of laws
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"If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out."
Strange & Unusual"Cutting off hands was another popular punishment if, for example, a son struck his father, or a field hand stole the crops they were tending."
Controversial"If a physician makes a large incision with an operating knife and kills the patient, his hands shall be cut off."
Strange & Unusual"If a man strikes a free-born woman so that she loses her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss."
Strange & Unusual"If a man opens his ditch for irrigation, and the water overflows and floods his neighbor's field, he shall pay grain to his neighbor for his loss."
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