CHAPTER 27

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) whom they ever forced to measure dust and ashes, with a bushel and gallon, and they ever gave it him to eat. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers such a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, in the world, kept no true bushel, nor gallons, nor weight, nor measure of length; (6) be mixed water with wine, and put dust into grain, and sold them to the people at a high price; (7) and stole and extorted something from the good.'