Situation #5: What should be happen if a nobleman dies during surgery?
Situation #3: What should be done about a wife who ignores her duties and belittles her husband?
Situation #2: What should happen to a boy who slaps his father?
Situation #1 What should be done to the carpenter who builds a house that falls and kills the owner?
Situation #6: What should the punishment be for robbery?
Situation #4: What should be done to the man who can not pay his debts?
Hammurabi’s Code # 218: If the doctor makes a large incision with an operating knife and kills a nobleman or commoner, or opens a tumor with the operating knife and cuts out the eye of a nobleman or commoner, the doctor’s hands shall be cut off.
Hammurabi’s Code # 22: If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
Hammurabi’s Code # 117: If a man be in debt and is unable to pay this creditors, he shall sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind them to over to service. For three years they shall work in the houses of their purchaser or master; in the fourth year they shall be given their freedom.
Hammurabi’s Code # 143: If the woman has not been careful but has gadded about, neglecting her house and belittling her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.
Hammurabi’s Code # 229: If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
Hammurabi’s Code # 195: If a son strikes his father, his hands shall be hewn (cut) off.
