Between the "Code of Hammurabi" and "The 10 Commandments", you can see a difference in the two by the way you can judge society and it's different social classes. In the "Code of Hammurabi", as the laws go on and on they begin to weed out different classes of people one by one and state their standings. In "The 10 Commandments", The only one above everyone else is God himself. His first commandment is "You shall have no other gods before me." As he continues, you can tell the way that each commandment is directed at everyone. God says, "you" at the beginning of each commandment, not "freed man", "women", or "slaves", like the "Code of Hammurabi". Everyone under God is considered an equal to everyone else based on "The 10 Commandments".
In the "Code of Hammurabi", however, different social classes were treated differently and you could tell by their punishments. If anyone were to commit a crime to a God, Temple, or Court, most of the time, the punishments were death. So, therefore, Gods were on top of the social class and everyone else must respect them. Around the middle of the social classes would probably be the freed men. Under the freed men would be the women and children. Then the slaves. In one of the laws, if a man were to accuse a woman of cheating on her husband and there was no evidence, the woman would still have to jump in the "river" for her husband. If slaves are killed they are merely just replaced, and if a slave commits an act of "sin" against these codes, most likely they will be put to death. .
All in all, you can judge a society and the way they are treated simply by looking at the "Code of Hammurabi" and "The 10 Commandments". "The Code of Hammurabi" divides the social classes throughout the text by separating the punishments and rewards up from the highest of the classes, the powerful gods, and the lowest of the classes, the slaves. "The 10 Commandments" simply states that there is one God who is above everyone else and everyone else is equal in God's eyes.
