222.  If he were a freed man he shall pay three shekels.

223.  If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.

224.  If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as fee.

225.  If he perform, a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value.

226.  If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

227.  If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave, he shall be put to death, and buried in his house.  The barber shall swear:  “I did not mark him wittingly,” and shall be guiltless.

228.  If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

229.  If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230.  If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231.  If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232.  If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall reerect the house from his own means.

233.  If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

234.  If a shipbuilder build a boat of sixty gur for a man, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels in money.

235.  If a shipbuilder build a boat for some one, and do not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense.  The tight boat he shall give to the boat owner.

236.  If a man rent his boat to a sailor, and the sailor is careless, and the boat is wrecked or goes aground, the sailor shall give the owner of the boat another boat as compensation.

237.  If a man hire a sailor and his boat, and provide it with corn, clothing, oil and dates, and other things of the kind needed for fitting it:  if the sailor is careless, the boat is wrecked, and its contents ruined, then the sailor shall compensate for the boat which was wrecked and all in it that he ruined.

238.  If a sailor wreck any one’s ship, but saves it, he shall pay the half of its value in money.

239.  If a man hire a sailor, he shall pay him six gur of corn per year.

240.  If a merchantman run against a ferryboat, and wreck it, the master of the ship that was wrecked shall seek justice before God; the master of the merchantman, which wrecked the ferryboat, must compensate the owner for the boat and all that he ruined.