[114] Laws of Ḫammurabi, 117.

[115] Ibid. 168.

[116] Hommel, op. cit. i. 416.

[117] Meissner, op. cit. p. 15.

[118] Ewald, Antiquities of Israel, p. 190. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, p. 465.

[119] Exodus, xxi. 7 sq.

[120] Genesis, xxiv. 4; xxviii. 1 sq. Exodus, xxxiv. 16. Deuteronomy, vii, 3.

[121] Cf. Michaelis, Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, i. 444.

[122] Cf. Ewald, op. cit. p. 188; Gans, Das Erbrecht in weltgeschichtlicher Entwickelung, i. 134.

[123] Philo Judæus, Opera, i. 759 sqq.