This is law number 202 of The Hammurabi Code, a code of laws enacted ca. 1780 BCE by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, as translated by Leonard William King. The Code of Hammurabi was one of several sets of laws in the Ancient Near East. An "s" was left out of the question. The Code actually states: "If any one strike the body of a men higher rank he shall receive sixty blows with a ox whip in public."
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