CHAPTER 20

1. I came to a place, and I saw the soul of a woman, (2) to whom they ever gave to eat cup after cup of the impurity and filth of men. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers suchl a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who, having not abstained, nor lawfully withheld herself, approached water and fire during her menstruation.'