Palestinian Ketubah (Ṣā, Egypt)

By Your name, our Creator. Groom and bride. May they build and prosper. On the second day of the week, which is the third day of the month of Nisan, of the year 4841 A.M., in the city of Ṣā, which is located on the Nile, was written this marriage deed, before us, we the undersigned witnesses.

De[clared] ‘Allūn, the groom, b. Daniel [whose] s[oul is at] r[est] intentionally, voluntarily, and of his own choice, not coerced, not enticed, and not intoxicated, to marry ‘Azūz, the bride, the divorcée, daughter of Joseph [whose] s[oul is at] r[est], with the intention that he will nourish, provide for, clothe, and cover her, in the manner of Jewish men. And this ‘Azūz, the bride, the divorcée, daughter of Joseph [whose] s[oul is at] r[est] harkened to him [accepted his proposal] and consented, with her full will, to be married to him, with the intention that she will attend him and serve [“stand before”] him, in the manner of respectable wives, who esteem and attend their husbands in purity and cleanness. And after he gave her 100 zuz, which the sages fixed for her, they agreed, groom and bride, that the total mohar be twelve full, good dinars: two dinars the advanced payment—this bride has received them; and there remain incumbent upon the groom [t]‌en dinars, delayed, a [strong and firm de]bt. These are what [this bri]de brought in from the Merciful [and from the house of her fathers:] . . .—one dinar, two pillows—tw[o din.]. . . pillows—one dinar, a cover—one dinar. The total of what this bride brought in to her husband’s house is five and one third dinars and the ten dinars, delayed. And this groom undertook the safekeeping of this dowry and the security of this marria[ge] deed and the stipulations of [the Torah] and the ketubba stipulations. And with this understan[ding, they agreed,] gr[oom] and bride, and they gave permission [to the witnesses] to testify. And we performed a qinyan with [ . . . for all] that is written and specified above [in] this marria[ge deed], af[ter it had been read to them [?] . . . ]

Moses b. Japheth [whose] s[oul is at] r[est]. Is[aac] b. Yeshu‘a Amram b. Joseph r[emembered] for [good]. Samuel b. . . . Bi[shr] ha-Levi b. Ḥalf[on].

Source: CUL T-S 16.53.