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English translation:

It happened in the town of Nur on the twenty fourth of July / fifth of August eighteen hundred fifty seven at eleven o’clock before noon the Jew Boruch Abramowicz [Boruch son of Avram Ha-Levy] Tachna, age thirty two, shoemaker, residing in the town of Nur, appeared in the presence of the witnesses the Jews Jankiel Lemkowicz Kuropatwa, age twenty seven, a day laborer, and Herszek Chunowicz Kur, age thirty three, a shoemaker, both residing in the town of Nur, and showed us a female child, born in the town of Nur on the nineteenth / thirteenth of January of the current year at ten o’clock in the evening from his wife Sura Chunowna [Sara daughter of Chanoch] (of the family Abramowicz), age thirty eight, to whom at the religious ceremony was given the name Bejla [Batyia daughter of Boruch Ha-Levy].  This document was comprehensibly read to those who appeared and signed only by the servant of the Vital Records Office, whereas the others in the mentioned document cannot write.