241.  If any one impresses an ox for forced labor, he shall pay one-third of a mina in money.

242.  If any one hire oxen for a year, he shall pay four gur of corn for plow-oxen.

243.  As rent of herd cattle he shall pay three gur of corn to the owner.

244.  If any one hire an ox or an ass, and a lion kill it in the field, the loss is upon its owner.

245.  If any one hire oxen, and kill them by bad treatment or blows, he shall compensate the owner, oxen for oxen.

246.  If a man hire an ox, and he break its leg or cut the ligament of its neck, he shall compensate the owner with ox for ox.

247.  If any one hire an ox, and put out its eye, he shall pay the owner one-half of its value.

248.  If any one hire an ox, and break off a horn, or cut off its tail or hurt its muzzle, he shall pay one-fourth of its value in money.

249.  If any one hire an ox, and God strike it that it die, the man who hired it shall swear by God and be considered guiltless.

250.  If while an ox is passing on the street [market?] some one push it, and kill it, the owner can set up no claim in the suit [against the hirer].

251.  If an ox be a goring ox, and it is shown that he is a gorer, and he do not bind his horns, or fasten the ox up, and the ox gore a free-born man and kill him, the owner shall pay one-half a mina in money.

252.  If he kill a man’s slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

253.  If any one agree with another to tend his field, give him seed, intrust a yoke of oxen to him, and bind him to cultivate the field, if he steal the corn or plants, and take them for himself, his hands shall be hewn off.

254.  If he take the seed-corn for himself, and do not use the yoke of oxen, he shall compensate him for the amount of the seed-corn.

255.  If he sublet the man’s yoke of oxen or steal the seed-corn, planting nothing in the field, he shall be convicted, and for each one hundred gan he shall pay sixty gur of corn.

256.  If his community will not pay for him, then he shall be placed in that field with the cattle [at work].

257.  If any one hire a field laborer, he shall pay him eight gur of corn per year.

258.  If any one hire an ox-driver, he shall pay him six gur of corn per year.

259.  If any one steal a water-wheel from the field, he shall pay five shekels in money to its owner.

260.  If any one steal a shadduf [used to draw water from the river or canal] or a plow, he shall pay three shekels in money.

261.  If any one hire a herdsman for cattle or sheep, he shall pay him eight gur of corn per annum.

262.  If any one, a cow or a sheep ... [broken off].

263.  If he kill the cattle or sheep that were given to him, he shall compensate the owner with cattle for cattle and sheep for sheep.