CHAPTER 38

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) whom they ever gave to eat, the flesh and dead refuse of mankind, with blood and filth, and other corruption and stench. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, in the world, brought bodily refuse and dead matter to water and fire and his own body and those also of other men; (6) and he was always carrying the dead alone, and was polluted; (7) he also did not wash himself in this occupation.'