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3. "a (nobleman breaks another (noble) man's bone, his bone shall be broken "If a (nobleman breaks a slave's bone, he shall pay one-half of its value."

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This is an excerpt from the Code of Hammurabi which was made in 1754. This excerpt is trying to depict the existence of social inequalities in Babylonian society during that period.

According to various historians, the code was by the sixth Babylonian King Hammurabi.

It is one of the earliest laws or code of conduct in the history of human civilization.

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