Chapter 20
1Believe me, all the work we did in this world will not remain hidden when we stand before Him in fear and trembling.
2In the hour when we have no provisions for our path and no clothes for our bodies...
3...in the hour when we have no staff for our hands or shoes for our feet...
4...and in the hour when we do not know the paths where the demons take us—whether it be slippery or smooth, dark, filled with thorns or nettles, or a depth of water or a pit—believe me, the works we did in this world will not remain hidden.
5We will not know the demons who take us, nor will we hear their words.
6As they are black ones and lead us toward darkness, we will not see their faces.
7As the prophet spoke, saying: "In the hour my soul was separated from my flesh—Lord, my Lord, You know my path. They hid a trap on the path where I went, and I looked to return to the right, but I lacked anyone who knew me; I have nothing there by which I will escape." As they take us toward darkness, we will not see their faces.
8Because he knows the demons ridicule him and will lead him toward a path he does not know, he speaks this. If he turns left or right, there is no one who knows him.
9He is alone among demons, and there is no one who knows him.
10Angels of Light, who are subtle, are sent to the righteous to receive their souls and take them toward a place of Light—toward the Garden where welfare is found.
11Demons and Angels of Darkness are sent to receive the sinners and take them toward Gehenna, which was prepared for them to receive hardship for the sins they committed.
12Woe to the souls of sinners who are taken toward destruction, who have no welfare or rest, no escape from the tribulation that finds them, and no departure from Gehenna for all eternity.
13Because they lived firmly in the work of Cain, perished by the price of Balaam’s iniquity, and lacked a plan—woe to the sinners. For their excuse was to receive interest and gifts, and in their transgression, they took a foreigner’s money that was not their own.
14They shall receive their hardship in Gehenna for the sins they committed.