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The Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is one of the most famous ancient law codes. The price of a slave in the 18th century BC when this was written was 20 shekels of silver. This tells us that the element of the Joseph story here about the price of slaves is absolutely accurate for the time period in which the Bible places Joseph.