| 1 | If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house shall be put to death. |
| 2 | If any one find runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver. |
| 3 | If the slave will not give the name of the master, the finder shall bring him to the palace; a further investigation must follow, and the slave shall be returned to his master. |
| 4 | If he hold the slaves in his house, and they are caught there, he shall be put to death. |
| 5 | If the slave that he caught run away from him, then shall he swear to the owners of the slave, and he is free of all blame. |
| 6 | If any one break a hole into a house (break in to steal), he shall be put to death before that hole and be buried. |
| 7 | If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. |
| 8 | If the robber is not caught, then shall he who was robbed claim under oath the amount of his loss; then shall the community, and ... on whose ground and territory and in whose domain it was compensate him for the goods stolen. |
| 9 | If persons are stolen, then shall the community and ... pay one mina of silver to their relatives. |
| 10 | If fire break out in a house, and some one who comes to put it out cast his eye upon the property of the owner of the house, and take the property of the master of the house, he shall be thrown into that self-same fire. |
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