Chapter 94. [Starving their infants and selling the milk]

1. Then I saw the souls of those whose own breasts were placed upon a hot frying-pan, by their own hands, (2) and were ever turned from side to side. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by these women, whose souls suffer so severe a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'These are the souls of those women who gave their infants no milk, but emaciated and destroyed them; (6) and for worldly gain, gave milk to the infants of others.