Marriage Contract
In the month of Tishri, that is Epeiph, year four of Darius the king, then in Elephantine the fortress, Ananiah son of Haggai, an Aramean of Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Iddinnabu, said to Zaccur son of Meshullam, an Aramean of Syene of the same detachment, as follows:
I came to you in your house and asked you for the woman named…
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