Hammurapi babiloni király idézet

Hammurapi Babilon város királya , az Óbabiloni Birodalom létrehozója volt. Apját, Szín-muballitot követte a babiloni trónon, utóda fia, Szamszuilúna volt. Wikipedia  

✵ 1810 i.e. – 1750 i.e.
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Hammurapi babiloni király: Idézetek angolul

“Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established.”

Epilogue to the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910). i like potatoes

“If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.”

Section 196 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Alternately translated as: If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

“If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.”

Section 48 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Alternately translated as: If a man owe a debt and Adad inundate his field and carry away the produce, or, though lack of water, grain have not grown in the field, in that year he shall not make any return of grain to the creditor, he shall alter his contract-tablet and he shall not pay the interest for that year.