Just some miscellaneous laws today, covering unsolved murders, taking wives from conquered people, and children. What stood out to me were mostly the things relating to marriage: the idea that multiple wives were still accepted, which just seems wrong to me, and even stranger that one could take a wife from among peoples you conquer in war. I'm sure that from the man's perspective that is cool, but it seems odd to me that a women could love a man who participated in destroying her people. I suppose that back then the woman's desire wasn't really taken into account much, since as we saw in the last chapter the people taken in war were to be slaves.
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