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If a woman, who is a widow, enter into the house of a man, whatsoever she brings with her---all is her husband's. But if a man enter in to a woman’s house, whatsoever he brings---all is the woman's
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If a woman induces an abortion, they shall prosecute her, they shall convict her, they shall crucify her, they shall not bury her. If she die from the abortion, they shall crucify her, they shall not bury her.
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If the wife of a man be walking on the highway, and a man seize her, say to her "I will surely have intercourse with you," if she be not willing and defend herself, and he seize her by force and rape her, whether they catch him upon the wife of a man, or whether at the word of the woman whom he has raped, the elders shall prosecute him, they shall put him to death. There is no punishment for the woman.
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Note that in pre-Muslim Arabia, a woman was not punished if she was raped as is currently done in some Muslim countries.

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If a man strike the daughter of a man and cause her to miscarry, they shall prosecute him, they shall convict him, two talents and thirty manas of lead shall he pay, fifty blows they shall inflict on him, one month shall he toil…. If a man strike a harlot and cause her to miscarry blows for blows they shall lay upon him; he shall make restitution for a life
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Note that prostitutes were also protected.

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Assyria (/əˈsɪriə/), also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near East that existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BCE (in the form of the Assur city-state) until its collapse between 612 BCE and 609 BCE; thereby spanning the periods of the Early to Middle Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. This vast span of time is divided into the Early Period (2500–2025 BC), Old Assyrian Empire (2025–1378 BCE), Middle Assyrian Empire (1392–934 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE).