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and set aside as much as is appropriate. And you have followed the custom as with all grooms and all free men from Dan A biblical reference, meaning from one end of the land to the other, and we have established the marriage contract within the boundaries, and it is written in every language that the heavens call it, and so-and-so, and it is done according to the ordinance of our Sages, of blessed memory, and it is upheld."
On the day of so-and-so, in the week of so-and-so, for the count of the years? that they praise and that will increase in the capital, so-and-so, how Mr. So-and-so, son of Mr. So-and-so, has betrothed so-and-so, the bride who was a widow from the beginning: "Be for me a wife according to the law of Moses and Israel, and I will labor and honor, according to the custom of Jewish men who labor and honor, and feed and support their wives in truth. And I will give you the bridal gift of your widowhood, two hundred zuzim ancient silver coins that are due to you from the Sages, and your food, and your clothing, and your needs, and I will come unto you according to the way of all the world." And she, so-and-so, consented and became his wife. And this is the dowry that she brought in to him from her father’s house, whether in silver, in gold, in jewelry, in items of clothing, or in bed furnishings, all of this Mr. So-and-so, this groom, accepted upon himself for the sum of one hundred pounds of refined silver, etc. And Mr. So-and-so, this groom, desired and added to it from his own [property] such and such pounds of refined silver. Thus the total of the entire marriage contract, between the principal, the dowry, and the addition, is the sum of such and such pounds of refined silver, aside from the two hundred zuzim that are due to her from the Sages. And this document of the marriage contract, the dowry, and the addition, I have accepted upon myself and upon my heirs after me, and all the finest of my property and acquisitions that I have under all the heavens, etc. And thus said Mr. So-and-so, the groom: "The liability of this marriage contract document, this dowry, and this addition, I have accepted upon myself and upon my heirs after me, and upon all the finest of my property and acquisitions that I have under all the heavens, those that I have acquired and that I shall acquire, property that has liability and property that does not have liability, all of them shall be responsible and mortgaged to pay from them this marriage contract document, and this dowry, and this addition, etc." And it is done according to the ordinance of our Sages, of blessed memory, and it is upheld."
On the day of so-and-so, in the week of so-and-so, Mr. So-and-so said to so-and-so: "This groom, who was a widow or divorcee from the beginning, be for me a wife according to the law of Moses and Israel, and I will labor and honor, according to the custom of Jewish men who labor and honor, and feed and support their wives in truth. And I will give you the bridal gift of your divorcee status, two hundred zuzim that are due to you from the Sages, and your food, and your needs, and I will come unto you as..."