Rabbi Tucker’s Egalitarian Ketubah Text

On the _________ day of the week, the ______ day of the month ________, in the year 57—, as we are accustomed to reckon it here, in _______, _____ in the United States of America, we hereby testify that the groom ______ _______ _________ [, son of ______ and ______ _______,] said to the bride ______ _______ _________, [daughter of ______ and ______ _______,] “You are consecrated to me as my wife, with this ring, according to the laws of Moses and Israel,” and that the bride ________ said to the groom _______, “You are consecrated to me as my husband with this ring, according to the laws of Moses and Israel.” The bride ________ and the groom _______ accepted all the conditions of betrothal and marriage as set forth by biblical law and by the rulings of the Sages of blessed memory. The bride ________ and the groom _______ further agreed willingly to work for one another, to honor, support and nurture one another, to live with one another, and to build together a household of integrity as befits members of the Jewish people. The bride accepted a ring from the groom, and the groom accepted a ring from the bride, for the purposes of creating this marriage and to symbolize their love. The bride and the groom also accepted full legal responsibility for the obligations herein taken on, as well as for the various property entering the marriage from their respective homes and families, and agreed that the obligations in this Ketubah may be satisfied even from movable property. We have had both the groom and the bride formally acquire these obligations to the other, with an instrument fit for such purposes. Thus all is in order and in force.