Chapter 75. [Cruelty to animals.]

1. I also saw souls who were thrown under the feet of cattle, (2) struck by the horns, and their bellies torn, and bones broken; and they were groaning. 3. And I asked thus: 'Who are these people?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked, by whom, in the world, the mouths of beasts and ploughing cattle were muzzled; (6) and water was not given to them in the heat; and they were kept at work hungry and thirsty.'