The Sotah ritual in Numbers 5:11-31 has long been seen as trial by ordeal, where a woman accused of infidelity is made to drink a concoction.

The Sotah ritual in Numbers 5:11-31 has been viewed as a trial by ordeal, but three Jewish interpreters, R. Herbert Chanan Brichto, R. Emanuel Rackman, and R. Yaakov Kamenetsky, argue that the point of the ritual was to find the woman innocent.