<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> המשיא את בתו סתם לא יפחות לה מחמשים זוז פסק להכניסה ערומה לא יאמר הבעל כשאכניסנה לביתי אכסנה בכסותי אלא מכסה ועודה בבית אביה וכן המשיא את היתומה לא יפחות לה מחמשים זוז אם יש בכיס מפרנסין אותה לפי כבודה:
If a man gives his daughter in marriage without specifying any conditions, he must give her not less than fifty zuz. If [the father] cut a deal [with the husband] that he would take her naked [i.e. without a dowry], the husband may not say “When I have taken her into my house I shall clothe her with clothes of my own,” rather he must provide her with clothing while she is still in her father’s house. Similarly if an orphan is given in marriage she must be given not less than fifty zuz. If funds are available she is to be provided in accordance with the dignity of her position.
Tosefta Ketubot
A man who dies and leaves sons and daughters, when the property is large, the sons inherit and the daughters are fed and supported. How do the sons inherit? They [the court] don't say: "If their father were still alive, he would have given them X"—rather, they see each one as if he were their still living father [at the same social status], and pay them. How are the daughters fed and supported? They don't say: "If their father were still alive, he would have given them X"—rather, they see them as they are [now in social status] and so how much they need support, and pay them. Rabbi says: Each of [the daughters] takes a tenth of the property. Rabbi Yehudah says: If he married off his first daughter [with a certain dowry], he has to give to the second like what he gave to the first. They said to him: There are those who marry off their daughter and receive money, and those who marry off their daughter and pay after her money. And so Rabbi Yehudah used to say: One who marries off his daughter without explicit [stipulation of a dowry], he should not give her less than 5 selaim, for in the old days that was enough to buy for her everything she needs.
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Tosefta Ketubot
She agreed to bring in for him [in the dowry] 2 selaim (=4 dinarim), they become 6 dinarim [that he has to pay her back in the event of death or divorce, he has to compensate her +1/2 since he has had use of the dowry in the meantime; see Mishnah Ketubot 6:3]. Whatever the groom agrees [to bring in as his dowry in the ketubah], he puts it in at a value of -1/5, except for the 200 zuz for a virgin or 100 zuz for a non-virgin. (This is probably about evaluating the value of objects he brings in; see Mishnah Ketubot 6:3.) She agreed to bring in for him gold, the gold is like vessels [i.e. are evaluated, so have the -1/5 modification in the ketubah]; golden dinarim, the gold is like money [i.e. are not evaluated, so have the +1/2 modification in the ketubah]. Said Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel: And this is true for any place where the custom is not to exchange golden dinarim [for smaller currency], [but in a place where this is not true] they leave them the way they are and the gold is like vessels.
