§ 260. If a man steals a watering-bucket or a plow, he shall pay 3 shekels of silver.
As the Hebrews did not systematically irrigate their land, the Old Testament contains no similar laws.
Laws Concerning Shepherds
§ 261. If a man hires a herdsman to tend cattle or sheep, he shall pay him 8 Gur of grain per year.
§ 262. If a man, oxen, or sheep ..............
(The rest is broken away.)
§ 263. If he loses an ox or a sheep that is intrusted to him, he shall restore ox for ox and sheep for sheep.
§ 264. If a herdsman who has had cattle or sheep intrusted to him receives his full pay and is satisfied, and he causes the cattle or the sheep to diminish in number or lessens the birth-rate, he shall give increase and produce according to his contracts.
§ 265. If a shepherd to whom cattle or sheep have been given to tend is dishonest and alters the price or sells them, they shall prosecute him, and he shall restore to their owner 10 times the oxen or sheep which he stole.
§ 266. If in a fold there is a pestilence of a god, or a lion has slain, the shepherd shall before a god declare himself innocent, and the owner of the fold shall bear the loss of the fold.