Chapter 80. [Falsifying measurements.]

1. Then I saw the souls of several who remained suspended, head downwards, in hell; (2) and they force the blood, filth, and brains of men into their mouths, and convey excrement into their noses; (3) and they [the tormentors?] ever cry thus: 'We keep just measures.' 4. And I asked thus: 'Who are these bodies? and what sin was committed by them?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked, by whom, in the world, weights and bushels and other small measures were kept short, (7) and things were sold to men.'