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What does law number eight of hammurabis code describe the punishment for

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"If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an donkey, or a pig or a goat, if it belonged to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirty fold; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death." is the law #8
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