§ 3. If a man in a case (pending judgment), as witness to slander has lied and has not justified the word that he has spoken, if that case be a capital suit, that man shall be put to death. [Dt 1916t-],
§ 4. If as witness to corn or money he has lied, he shall himself bear the sentence of that case. [Ex 238, Dt 16%],
§ 5. If a judge has judged a judgment, decided a decision, granted a sealed sentence, and after- wards has altered his judgment, they shall call that judge to account for the alteration of the judgment that he judged, and he shall pay twelve- fold the penalty which was in the said judgment. Further, in the assembly they shall expel him from his judgment seat, and he shall not return and with the judges at a judgment he shall not take his seat.
§ 6. If a man has stolen the goods of temple or palace, that man shall be put to death. Further, he who has received the stolen thing from his hand shall be put to death. [Gn 31%, Jos 73#].
§ 7. If a man has bought silver, gold, manservant or maidservant, ox or sheep or ass or anything what- ever its name, from the hand of a man’s son, or of a man’s slave, without witness or power of attorney, or has received the same on deposit, that man has acted the thief, he shall be put to death. [Gn 2310-18, Ru 4],
§ 8. If a man has stolen ox or sheep or ass or pig or ship, whether from the temple or the palace, he shall pay thirtyfold. If from a poor man, he shall render tenfold. If the thief has not where- with to pay, he shall be put to death. [Gn 44°, Ex 2157 2918 8° O'S) 125),
§ 9. If a man who has lost something of his has seized something of his that was lost in the hand of a man, (while) the man in whose hand the lost thing has been seized has said, ‘A giver gave it me,’ or ‘I bought it before witnesses’; and further, the owner of the thing that was lost has said, ‘ Verily, I will bring witnesses that know my lost property’ ; (if) the buyer has brought the giver who gave it him, or the witnesses before whom he bought it, and the owner of the lost property has brought the witnesses who know his lost property, the judge shall see their depositions, the witnesses before whom the purchase was made, and the wit- nesses knowing the lost property shall say out before God what they know; and if the giver has acted the thief he shall be put to death, the owner ot the lost property shall take his lost property, the buyer shall take the money he paid from the house of the giver. [‘to give’ is often = ‘to sell.’], [Ex 227-9, Ly 69],
§ 10. If the buyer has not brought the giver who gave it him or the witnesses before whom he bought, and the owner of the lost property has brought the witnesses knowing his lost pro- perty, the (professed) buyer has acted the thief, he shall be pak to death. The owner of the lost property shall take his lost property.
§ 11. If the owner of the lost property has not brought witnesses knowing his lost property, he has slandered, he has stirred up strife, he shall be put to death. [Dt 191],
§ 12. If the seller has betaken himself to his fate (is dead), the buyer shall take from the house of the seller fivefold as the penalty of that case.
§ 13. If that man has not his witnesses near, the judge shall set him a fixed time, up to six months, and if within six months he has not brought in his witnesses, that man has slandered, he himself shall bear the penalty of that case,
§ 14. If a man has stolen the young son of a freeman, he shall be put to death. [Ex 211%, Dt 247], § 15. If a man has caused either a palace slave
or palace maid, or a slave of a poor man or a poor
man’s maid, to go out of the gate, he shall be put to death.
§ 16. If a man has harboured in his house a man- servant or a maidservant, fugitive from the palace, or from a poor man, and hag not produced them at the demand of the commandant, that householder shall be put to death. [Dt 23%, 1S 30%}.
§ 17. If aman has captured either a manservant or a maidservant, a fugitive, in the open country and has driven him back to his master, the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver. [Gn 167, Dt 2316, 1 K’ 259),
§ 18. If that slave will not name his owner, he shall drive him to the palace, and one shall inquire into his past, and cause him to return to his owner.
§ 19. If he confine that slave in his house, and afterwards the slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death.
§ 20. If the slave has fled from the hand of his captor, that man shall swear by the name of God to the owner of the slave, and shall go free. [Ex 2218, Jer 23, Mt 6¥*].