However, when brought both Babylon and Susa under the rule of his, and placed copies of the document in the, the text became available for all the peoples of the vast Persian Empire to view. It had been taken as plunder by the king in the 12th century BC and was taken to in (located in the present-day of Iran) where it was no longer available to the Babylonian people. Some of these laws follow along the rules of 'an eye for an eye'. ![]() In the preface to the law, he states, ' and called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers so that the strong should not harm the weak so that I should rule over the black-headed people like, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.' On the stone slab are 44 columns and 28 paragraphs that contained 282 laws.
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