QuoteQuest“If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Hammurabi
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Hammurabi. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Hammurabi. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hammurabi
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