1
A soul was taken from its body while still found in its lawlessness and before it had completed repentance.
2
Thousands of messengers surrounded it and drove it from east toward west.
3
They beat and guarded it without rest, and Tzefanyah fell upon his face in terror until his joints failed beneath him.
4
The messenger beside him strengthened him and told him not to collapse under the sight.
5
The seer asked who the soul was and why so many had power over it.
6
He was told that it had been found in lawlessness and had left the world before setting its life right.
7
Tzefanyah then saw innumerable beings in another place, human in form yet fearsome in appearance.
8
The surviving Sahidic leaf breaks at this point. Provenance note. Sahidic witness; only one leaf survives and its verso is largely illegible.