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Numbers 5. (Numbers 5:14; Numbers 5:30.) An ordeal to detect a woman's guilt or vindicate her innocence to her husband. It could not injure the innocent or punish the guilty except by miracle; contrary to pagan ordeals, wherein the innocent could scarcely escape except by miracle.