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Ordeal of the bitter water
Halakhic texts relating to this article
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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