master, the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver.
§ [18]. If that slave will not name his owner he shall drive him to the palace, and one shall enquire into his past, and cause him to return to his owner.
§ [19]. If he confine that slave in his house, and afterwards the slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death.
§ [20]. If the slave has fled from the hand of his captor, that man shall swear by the name of God, to the owner of the slave, and shall go free.
§ [21]. If a man has broken into a house, one shall kill him before the breach and bury him in it (?).
§ [22]. If a man has carried on brigandage, and has been captured, that man shall be put to death.
§ [23]. If the brigand has not been caught, the man who has been despoiled shall recount before God what he has lost, and the city and governor in whose land and district the
brigandage took place shall render back to him whatever of his was lost.
§ [24]. If it was a life, the city and governor shall pay one mina of silver to his people.
§ [25]. If in a man’s house a fire has been kindled, and a man who has come to extinguish the fire has lifted up his eyes to the property of the owner of the house, and has taken the property of the owner of the house, that man shall be thrown into that fire.