section 255.  If he has hired out the oxen of the man or has stolen the corn and has not caused it to grow in the field, that man one shall put him to account and he shall measure out sixty GUR of corn per GAN of land.

section 256.  If his compensation he is not able to pay, one shall remove the oxen from that field.

section 257.  If a man has hired a harvester, he shall give him eight GUR of corn per year.

section 258.  If a man has hired an ox-driver, he shall give him six GUR of corn per year.

section 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.

section 260.  If he has stolen a watering bucket or a harrow, he shall pay three shekels of silver.

section 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.

section 262.  If a man, ox, or sheep to [this section is defaced].

section 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.

section 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.

section 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.

section 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.

section 267.  If a shepherd has been careless and in a sheepfold caused a loss to take place, the shepherd shall make good the fault of the loss which he has caused to be in the fold and shall pay cows or sheep and shall give to their owner.

section 268.  If a man has hired an ox, for threshing, twenty KA of corn is its hire.

section 269.  If he has hired an ass, for threshing, ten KA of corn is its hire.

section 270.  If he has hired a calf (goat?), for threshing, one KA of corn is its hire.

section 271.  If a man has hired oxen, a wagon, and its driver, he shall give one hundred and eighty KA of corn per diem.

section 272.  If a man has hired a wagon by itself, he shall give forty KA of corn per diem.

section 273.  If a man has hired a labourer, from the beginning of the year till the fifth month, he shall give six SE of silver per diem; from the sixth month to the end of the year, he shall give five SE of silver per diem.