II. A young man travelling from Tiberias to Betar
saw a young woman who fell in love with him and married
him. After a year she asked him to return home on a visit.
On the way they were met by a robber and she fell in love
with him. He tied the husband to a tree and they enjoyed
themselves together. When the robber had fallen asleep a
snake drank from his jug of wine and poisoned it. The
robber when he woke drank of it and died. On his promising
not to kill her, the woman loosened her husband's bonds
and they arrived at her parents' house. The man then told
what had happened and the father killed the daughter.
Therefore Solomon said, “Among a thousand women I have
not found a faithful one.'' (Eccles. VII. 28.)
III. Story of the man who refused to kill his wife, and of
the woman's being willing to kill her husband when asked by
King Solomon. See No. 328.
401. II. A young man travelling from Tiberias to Betar
saw a young woman who fell in love with him and married
him. After a year she asked him to return home on a visit.
On the way they were met by a robber and she fell in love
with him. He tied the husband to a tree and they enjoyed
themselves together. When the robber had fallen asleep a
snake drank from his jug of wine and poisoned it. The
robber when he woke drank of it and died. On his promising
not to kill her, the woman loosened her husband's bonds
and they arrived at her parents' house. The man then told
what had happened and the father killed the daughter.
Therefore Solomon said, “Among a thousand women I have
not found a faithful one.'' (Eccles. VII. 28.)
III. Story of the man who refused to kill his wife, and of
the woman's being willing to kill her husband when asked by
King Solomon. See No. 328.
