Tell His Reverence he has my thanks for discharging his trust so correctly and delivering to me what is mine.
And tell him I'm also grateful to all them other holy men who waited for me, from one generation to another down the centuries to this present day and fortuitous occasion.
My lord, these people are from village of Kamdesh.
This man owns 60 cows.
All cows in the village.
- Very enterprising of him.
- Enterprise is not his, it is hers.
She's his wife. Every time he catches her with other man other man has to pay six cows. Kafiri custom.
Use other man's wife, pay him six cows.
He's piled up a fortune of 60 cows out of her infidelities?
- And 32 goats.
She ain't a wife.
She's a going concern!
And these are the unfaithful husbands and these the wives?
Those four, wives of one man.
These three, wives of another.
This ain't no laughing matter!
No cattle, there ain't meat nor hides. No milk, there ain't butter or cheese and the children's bowls go empty.
Outrageous, it is!
Now... For encouraging his wife to comport herself like Jezebel one cow shall be paid each of the other wives.
For using a good law for a bad purpose, another.
For causing the young to go without, a third.
For thinking he can get away with it, a fourth.
He shall pay 22 cases of compensation of four cows to each wife.