Chapter 73. [Makeup]

1. I also saw the souls of women (2) who ever shed and sucked and ate the blood and filth of their ten fingers; (3) and worms ever came into both eyes. 4. And I asked thus: 'Who are these souls? (5) and what sin was committed by them who suffer so severe a punishment?' 6. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (7) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked women who beautified their faces [with makeup], and kept the hair of others as ornament; (8) and they captivated the eyes of the men of God.'