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Whether you thank Yahweh, Ishtar, or Osiris for your daily bread a few literary comparisons may prove to be insightful when looking at the written laws for your particular flavor of faith. For example, The Negative Confessions, The Code of Hammurabi, and The Ten Commandments and Covenant Code all offer insightful similarities. The Mesopotamian and Hebrew texts are remarkably similar. That being said, while the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Hebrews subscribed to remarkably similar laws, their concept of God differed in distinct ways. While the outcomes of these documents were likely similar, their individual intents differed slightly. These documents provide uniquely prime insight into the inter-influenced moral traditions and legal codes of the ancients as well as our current western legal traditions and historical roots.