122.  If any one give another silver, gold or anything else to keep, he shall show everything to some witness, draw up a contract, and then hand it over for safe keeping.

123.  If he turn it over for safe keeping without witness or contract, and if he to whom it was given deny it, then he has no legitimate claim.

124.  If any one deliver silver, gold or anything else to another for safe keeping, before a witness, but he deny it, he shall be brought before a judge, and all that he has denied he shall pay in full.

125.  If any one place his property with another for safe keeping, and there, either through thieves or robbers, his property and the property of the other man be lost, the owner of the house, through whose neglect the loss took place, shall compensate the owner for all that was given to him in charge.  But the owner of the house shall try to follow up and recover his property, and take it away from the thief.

126.  If any one who has not lost his goods, state that they have been lost, and make false claims:  if he claim his goods and amount of injury before God, even though he has not lost them, he shall be fully compensated for all his loss claimed [i.e., the oath is all that is needed].

127.  If any one point the finger [slander] at a sister of a god or the wife of any one, and cannot prove it, this man shall be taken, before the judges and his brow shall be marked [by cutting the skin, or perhaps hair].

128.  If a man take a woman to wife, but have no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

129.  If a man’s wife be surprised with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.

130.  If a man violate the wife [betrothed or child-wife] of another man, who has never known a man, and still lives in her father’s house, and sleep with her and be surprised, this man shall be put to death, but the wife is blameless.

131.  If a man bring a charge against one’s wife, but she is not surprised with another man [delit flagrant is necessary for divorce], she must take an oath and then may return to her house.

132.  If the “finger is pointed” at a man’s wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband [prove her innocence by this test].

133.  If a man is taken prisoner in war, and there is a sustenance in his house, but his wife leave house and court, and go to another house:  because this wife did not keep her court, and went to another house, she shall be judicially condemned and thrown into the water.

134.  If any one be captured in war and there is no sustenance in his house, if then his wife go to another house, this woman shall be held blameless.

135.  If a man be taken prisoner in war and there be no sustenance in his house and his wife go to another house and bear children; and if later her husband return and come to his home:  then this wife shall return to her husband, but the children follow their father.