"If a woman neglected and left her husband, she might be cast into the water; if a husband neglected his wife, his only punishment was that she could leave him."

"I was granted my rule by the gods 'to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak'."

"If a physician operates on a man for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and causes the man's death, or opens an abscess in the eye for a man with a bronze lancet and destroys the man's eye, they shal…"

"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 a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out."