Bob the Builder

Many great societies are regulated and shaped by the laws they are governed by. A well-defined set of laws can help keep a society running like a well-oiled machine and keep a civilization going for hundreds of years. Two early civilizations that used well-structured laws were the Babylonians and the Canaanites. The Babylonians with the Hammurabi Code and the Canaanites with the Covenant Code were very similar codes that helped to keep both great societies in check. There should obviously be similarities between the two codes as they are both dealing with people who are related culturally, racially, and living in somewhat similar conditions. There also are similarities when dealing with incidents and when infringements occur what penalties will incur. There are quite a few striking differences though, mainly dealing with the religious side of the codes. While both codes allowed their respective civilizations to become great, there were a vast amount of differences between the two forms of law.
Both the Hammurabi and the Covenant Code where thought out rules and regulations that allowed the civilizations to survive hundreds of years. The Covenant Code in both form and content is very similar to that of the Hammurabi Code. For example, in regards to the capital offenses, they had a very similar take on punishments that would be given out. If someone was killed by another person, in both Codes they would be put to death, but the Hammurabi Code had a much more civilized court system with judges and appeal systems. Other similarities appear in the laws as well, when discussing the matter of property both could only be owned by a man of status. In the Hammurabi this was known as an amelu. An amelu was a patrician, the man of the family, whose birth, marriage, and death were registered, of ancestral estates and full civil rights. In the Covenant Code they have similar rights for male landowners. Both Codes also have advanced detail about slaves and the laws around