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How is it written? We acquired from the hand of this groom, So-and-so son of So-and-so, that all that is explained above, and upon all that is written and explained above, we acquired with every vessel that is qualified to acquire, and in the ordinance that the Sages ordained, with the annulment of every protest and the disqualification of every testimony, not like a [mere] support an unenforceable promise and not like a copy of a document, to be for forever and ever. All is binding and upheld.
On the day of so-and-so, in the week of so-and-so, of the month of so-and-so, in the year of so-and-so, for the count that we are counting here, in the writing of so-and-so, how So-and-so son of So-and-so, my brother's widow The woman whose husband died childless and who must marry the brother or undergo halitzah [is] in my power and in my writing, as written, so-and-so, before [the court] in the market.
From that which he wrote and betrothed, So-and-so, and gave to her a marriage contract, and he renewed for her, and they are prepared for you according to [that] which he lives for them, five hundred
zuzim ancient silver coins (that are due) to you (because the [document] that is composed to pass the state of standing, for he shall give her).
And he shall write, to write that which is left, to be for her to make [of] the brother's widow, he shall come upon her, and since he shall come [to] this verse upon its meaning in her marriage contract, behold... and he took her to him for a wife, and he married her, and thus said Mr. So-and-so to his chosen, So-and-so: "And this is the dowry that she brought in for him to the house of the world, as is explained," and he shall arrange the... and he finished [the] double condition and strength, and Mr. So-and-so took upon himself in joy, and in the [condition] that was written in the presence of the [witnesses], they made affection in joy and honor, and for the brother's widow, for you [and] your sons, in the parchment, double, and types, provisions for her provisions from the matters of clothing and affairs and acts, as is seen, and the law... they pardon, and he wrote as our prophets in the marriage contract, as is written for you... and your... and... the property of So-and-so... he took upon himself in an oath, So-and-so son of So-and-so, the brother's widow in all the purchase.
This letter to write, and [he] acquired... he hurried to... he shall fine by his substitute... and outside the ordinance they made... and they will bring [the] turning of the heart from the heart, like this, a lie in the writing of their property in their marriage contracts. And yes, he took in the parchment, hidden in the betrothal from the later ones and from the... sages, and in it [there is] life, and the levirate [marriage] is legislated, and it is written all that is written above upon our name, and all that is given, and it is written: "And as the face before the book," strong. It is finished... and my brother's widow... and witnesses in the gate.