A yavam does not confer [upon his sister-in-law] the right to eat of terumah. [If] she had spent six months before her husband and six months before the yavam, or even all of them before her husband, less one day [that she spent] before the yavam; or all of them before the yavam, less one day [that she spent] before her husband, she may not eat of terumah. This is the original ruling. The court that came after them said: A woman may not eat of terumah until she enters the chupah.

[If] one consecrated his wife’s handiwork, she may [nevertheless] work and eat. [If he consecrated] the surplus —- R’ Meir says: [It is] consecrated. R’ Yochanan HaSandlar says: [It is] not consecrated.

These are the kinds of work that a woman must do for her husband: she must grind, bake, and wash; cook and nurse her child; make his bed and work with wool. [If] she brought him one maidservant, she need neither grind, bake, nor wash; [if she brought in] two, she need neither cook nor nurse her child; three —- she need neither make his bed nor work with wool; four —- she may sit in an easy chair. R’ Eliezer says: Even if she brought him a hundred maidservants, he should compel her to work with wool, for idleness brings to unchastity. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Even [if] one pronounces a vow upon his wife not to do any work, he must divorce her and give her kesubah, for idleness brings to insanity.

[If] one pronounces a vow on his wife not to have relations —- Beis Shammai say: Two weeks; Beis Hillel says: One week. Stu-dents may leave for Torah study without permission for thirty days; laborers, for one week. The conjugal rights stated in the To-rah are [as follows]: men of leisure, every day; laborers, twice a week; donkey-drivers, once a week; camel-drivers, once in thirty days; sailors, once in six months; [these are] the words of R’ Eliezer.

[If] a woman rebels against her husband, they decrease her kesubah seven dinars a week. R’ Yehudah says: Seven tropaics. Until when does he decrease? Until [he decreases a sum] corresponding to her kesubah. R’ Yose says: He may go on decreasing it con-tinually; perhaps an inheritance will fall to her from somewhere else, [and] he will collect therefrom. Likewise, [if] one rebels against his wife, they increase her kesubah for her three dinars a week. R’ Yehudah says: Three tropaics.

[If] one supports his wife through a third party he may not give her less than two kavin of wheat or four kavin of barley. Said R’ Yose: No one provided her with barley except R’ Yishmael, who was near Edom. He must give her half a kav of beans, half a log of oil, and a kav of dried figs or a maneh of pressed figs. If he has none, he must provide her, in their stead, with produce of an-other kind. He must give her a bed, a mattress, and a mat; he must give her a veil for her head, a girdle for her loins, shoes from festival to festival, and clothes worth fifty zuz from year to year. She may not be given new ones in the summer or worn ones in the winter, but must be given clothing worth fifty zuz in the winter, and she clothes herself with them when they are worn out in the summer; and the worn-out clothing is hers.

He must give her a silver maah for her needs, and she eats with him on the night of every Sabbath. If he does not give her a sil-ver maah for her needs, her handiwork is hers. What must she do for him? The weight of five selaim of warp in Judea, which equals ten selaim in Galilee, or the weight of ten selaim of woof in Judea, which equals twenty selaim in Galilee. If she was nurs-ing, they decrease her handiwork [requirement] and add to her food. When does this apply? [In [the case of] the poorest in Isra-el, but in [the case of] the wealthy, everything is according to his wealth.

A woman’s findings and her handiwork belong to her husband, but her inheritance —- he enjoys the usufruct during her lifetime.  [Restitution for] her disgrace and impairment belongs to her. R’ Yehudah ben Beseirah says: When it is in a hidden place, two thirds belong to her, and one [third] to him; when it is in the open, two thirds belong to him and one [third] to her.  His [share] is given [to him] immediately, but [as for] hers —- land is bought with it, and he enjoys the usufruct.

[If] one agrees to give money to his son-in-law, and his son-in-law dies —- the Sages said: He can say: “To your brother I wanted to give, but to you I do not want to give.”

[If] she agreed to bring him a thousand dinars —- corresponding to this, he must contract [to give her] fifteen hundred zuz. But corresponding to appraised goods, he contracts [to give] a fifth less.  Goods appraised for a hundred, which are worth a hundred —- he has nothing but a hundred. Goods appraised for a hundred —- she gives thirty-one selaim and a dinar; for four hundred, she gives five hundred. Whatever the groom contracts, he contracts less a fifth.

[If] she agreed to bring him money, a silver sela becomes six dinars. The groom takes upon himself ten dinars for the basket, per hundred. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Everything follows the local custom.

[If] one marries off his daughter without specifying, he should not give her less than fifty zuz. [If] he agreed to take her in unpro-vided, the husband cannot say, “When I take her into my house, I will clothe her with my clothing”; rather, he must clothe her while she is still in her father’s house.  Likewise, [if] one marries off an orphan, he may not give her less than fifty zuz. If there is [sufficient] in the coffer, they provide her according to the honor due her.

An orphan who was married off by her mother or her brothers with her consent, and they assigned to her in writing a hundred or fifty zuz —- when she becomes of age, she can exact from their hand what should rightfully be given her. R’ Yehudah says: If he married off the first daughter, the second one shall be given in the manner that he gave the first one. The Sages, however, say: Sometimes a man is poor and he becomes rich; or rich, and he becomes poor. Rather, they appraise the property and give her.