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The law collections presented in this volume are compilations, varying in legal and literary sophistication, recorded by scribes in the schools and the royal centers of ancient Mesopotamia and Asia Minor from the end of the third millennium through the middle of the first millennium B.C.E. Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite texts, with accompanying English translations, are included....

father’s house, and a husband of her choice shall marry her. ¶ 157 (xxxiii 18–23) If a man, after his father’s death, should lie with his mother, they shall burn them both. ¶ 158 (xxxiii 24–32) If a man, after his father’s death, should be discovered in the lap of his (the father’s) principal wife who had borne children, that man shall be disinherited from the paternal estate. ¶ 159 (xxxiii 33–46) If a man who has the ceremonial marriage prestation brought to the house of his father-in-law, and who
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