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  • I believe the phrase that we use is “mattan Torah,” honeybun.

    but but but - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • He will give "dowry" (mohar, here, no doubt, actually the purchase price paid to parents for their daughter, though Israelites never bought wives) and "gift" (mattan, the wedding gift presented to the bride).

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Vernon had to go towards the strong English voice that was filling the hall with its inquiries for "Ung Mossoo -- ung mossoo Anglay qui avoir certainmong etty icy ce mattan."

    The Incomplete Amorist 1891

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