the non-biblical codes like the Code of Hammurabi. The Covenant Code, like other biblical codes, differs from these by including among the laws dealing with criminal and civil matters various regulations concerning worship. Both, however, set the laws in an explicitly religious context.

Relationship to the Ritual Decalogue

Some of the commandments in the Covenant Code overlap noticeably with the commandments in the Ritual Decalogue. Robert Pfeiffer suggested that the Covenant Code is

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