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10 Commandments

 

             The Ten Commandments and the Code of Hammurabi are similar in quite a few ways and they are also different in various ways. In the whole they are both based on the same idea but broken down they are quite different. The Code of Hammurabi was composed by a man by the name of Hammurabi, "the reverent God-fearing prince from Mesopotamia" (The Arts 1000 Reader). The Code was put in place to have justice in the land, to destroy evil and the wicked, and to protect the weak. The Ten Commandments, as stated in the Arts 1000 Reader, were composed by God and they are religious and moral principles that helped shape the European legal tradition. The Ten Commandments created a special relationships between God and the people of Israel. The special relationship is called the Covenant.
             The main difference between the Ten Commandments and the Code of Hammurabi is that there are always consequences in the Code of Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi is based on the principle of "An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth". If a person kills another person they shall be put to death; If a person kills the daughter of another, his or her daughter shall be put to death. In the Code of Hammurabi there is nothing about honouring the Sabbath day, which would be Sunday, and there is nothing about honouring one and only one God. However, in the Ten Commandments, commandment number four states "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" and the first commandment is "You shall have no other gods before Me". .
             The 209th code in the Code of Hammurabi, states "If a man has struck a gentleman's daughter and caused her to drop what is in her womb, he shall pay ten shekels of silver for what was in her womb". This shows that the Code of Hammurabi protects the unborn child, where there is nothing in the Ten Commandments about protecting the unborn. In the Code of Hammurabi, there are some codes that are protecting women in a way that their husband can not leave them without paying them something.


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