18. “Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And everyone marrying her who is put away from her husband commits adultery.
19. “But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.
20. “And there was a certain beggar named El‛azar, being covered with sores, who was placed at his gate,
21. and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22. “And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Aḇraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
23. “And while suffering tortures in the grave, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Aḇraham far away, and El‛azar in his bosom.
24. “And crying out he said, ‘Father Aḇraham, have compassion on me, and send El‛azar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.’