על החוקים לפרטיהם, ספר א כ״וOn the Special Laws, Book I 26
א׳
1[129] As a sequel to this he proceeds to lay down a law full of humane feeling. If the daughter of a priest, he says, is widowed after marrying one who is not a priest, either by his death or divorce during his lifetime, and left without children, she should return to her father to regain the share in the first-fruits which she enjoyed as a virgin. For she is still in a sense virtually a virgin, destitute as she is of both husband and children and with no refuge except her father.
ב׳
2[130] But if there are sons or daughters, the mother must take her place with her children. For sons and daughters belong to the house of the male parent and carry with them into it the mother also.