CHAPTER 44

1. I also saw the soul of a woman (2) who ever dug into a hill with her own breasts; (3) and ever held, on her head, a mill-stone like a cap. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffered so severe a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who, in the world, destroyed her own infant, and threw away the corpse.'