Chapter 71. [Sodomy and enticing wives to adultery.]

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) whom the fangs of serpents stung and ever gnawed; (3) and in both eyes, snakes and worms ever voided; (4) and an iron spike was grown [scraped?] upon the tongue. 5. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 6. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (7) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man, by whom sodomy was much committed; (8) and through a desire for improper lust, he debauched the wives of others. (9) And his smooth speaking deceived and seduced the wives of others, and separated them from their husbands.'