Chapter 63.

1. I also saw the soul of a woman (2) who ever licked a hot oven with her tongue, (3) and ever burnt her own hand under the oven. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers 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, offered defiance to her own husband and master, and became abusive; (7) she also acted disobediently, and did not grant cohabitation at his desire; (8) and she stole property from her husband, and secretly formed a hoard for herself.'