§ 253. If a man has set another over his field, hired him, allotted him tools, and intrusted him with oxen for cultivating the field and provided harnesses for them, and if that man has appropriated the seed or provender, and they have been found in his possession, his hands shall be cut off.
§ 254. If he has taken the provender or rations and has enfeebled the oxen, he shall make it good from the corn he has hoed.
§ 255. If he has let out the man's oxen for hire, or stolen the seed-corn, or has not produced a crop, that man shall be prosecuted, and he shall pay sixty GUR of corn for each GAN.
§ 256. If he is not able to pay his compensation, he shall be torn in pieces on that field by the oxen.
Wages of laborers
§ 257. If a man has hired a field-laborer, he shall pay him eight GUR of corn yearly.
§ 258. If anyone has hired an ox-herd he shall pay him six GUR of corn yearly.
Theft of agricultural instruments
§ 259. If a man has stolen a watering-machine from the meadow, he shall pay five shekels of silver to the owner of the watering-machine.
§ 260. If a man has stolen a shadduf, or a plough, he shall pay three shekels of silver.