Quotation for Sanhedrin 200:9
אמר רב יוסף מילי מעלייתא דאית ביה דרשינן להו אשה טובה מתנה טובה בחיק ירא אלהים תנתן אשה רעה צרעת לבעלה מאי תקנתיה יגרשנה מביתו ויתרפא מצרעתו אשה יפה אשרי בעלה מספר ימיו כפלים
R. Joseph said: [Yet] we may expound to them<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to the masses, in the public lectures. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> the good things it contains.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Yad Ramah records a reading confirmed by many MSS. [H] 'Had not the Rabbis hidden this book, we should have expounded them etc.', implying that Ben Sira was hitherto included in the canon; v. J.Q.R., 1891, 686 and 700.] ');"><sup>18</sup></span>
Ben Sira
A good wife, happy is her husband; and the number of his days is doubled.
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Ben Sira
A good wife is a good gift, given to the lap of those who revere God.
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