§ [258]. If a man has hired an ox-driver, he shall give him six gur of corn per year.
§ [259]. If a man has stolen a watering machine from the meadow, he shall give five shekels of silver to the owner of the watering machine.
§ [260]. If he has stolen a watering bucket or a harrow, he shall pay three shekels of silver.
§ [261]. If a man has hired a herdsman for the cows or a shepherd for the sheep, he shall give him eight gur of corn per annum.
§ [262]. If a man, ox, or sheep to [this section is defaced].
§ [263]. If he has caused an ox or sheep which was given him to be lost, ox for ox,
sheep for sheep, he shall render to their owner.
§ [264]. If a herdsman who has had cows or sheep given him to shepherd, has received his hire, whatever was agreed, and his heart was contented, has diminished the cows, diminished the sheep, lessened the offspring, he shall give offspring and produce according to the tenour of his bonds.
§ [265]. If a shepherd to whom cows and sheep have been given him to breed, has falsified and changed their price, or has sold them, one shall put him to account, and he shall render cows and sheep to their owner tenfold what he has stolen.
§ [266]. If in a sheepfold a stroke of God has taken place or a lion has killed, the shepherd shall purge himself before God, and the accident to the fold the owner of the fold shall face it.