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 The woman who desired nothing else but the well-being of her husband carried this out in short order. She tied one end of the rope to her waist which enabled her husband to safely escape for his life. So, when he reached the ground, and the woman arrived at the top of the tower, he told her that she had to enter the tower, and that she had to drop the end of the chord to which she had been tied down to him below. This was because he wanted to tie a piece of wood to it so that once she pulled the rope up again, and straddled the wood when she mounted it, she could descend more easily.

Obeying the words of her husband, the wife threw the end of the chord down to him. He then furiously pulled the entire chord out of the pulley. And with his eyes towards the top of the tower, with his soul full of hate against the wife, who had put his life in such danger, he said, "Guilty and malicious woman, where you are now, because of me, you will certainly have to die. Because it is right, that you will meet that fate of death that the Lord had intended for me because of your loose tongue." And after he spoke these words, he threw the chord which he had pulled out of the pulley in a small stream near the tower together with the silk threads and the thin rope, that had been thrown down from the tower, so that he would not be discovered by anyone.