Halakhic texts relating to this article | |
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Torah: | Numbers 5:11–31 |
Mishnah: | Sotah |
Babylonian Talmud: | Sotah |
Jerusalem Talmud: | Sotah |
Mishneh Torah: | Sefer Nashim, Sotah |
In the Hebrew Bible, the ordeal of the bitter water was a Jewish trial by ordeal administered by a priest in the tabernacle to a wife whose husband suspected her of adultery, but the husband had no witnesses to make a formal case. It is described in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 5:11–31).
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