Sotah 3:5-6

Sotah 3:5

Rabbi Shimon says that a woman’s merits do not delay the effects of the bitter waters. If such were the case, you would weaken the waters in the eyes of those who drink, and you cast aspersion on the innocent women who drink in that others will assume that they’re guilty but that their merits delayed the punishment. Rebbi says that a woman’s merits do delay the effects of the bitter waters. One who is guilty will not conceive (as an innocent woman would) and her condition deteriorates. She wastes away until she ultimately suffers the prescribed death.

Sotah 3:6

If a sotah’s flour offering was rendered ritually impure before being sanctified in a Temple vessel, it is like any other flour offering in that it may be redeemed. If it was rendered unclean after being sanctified in a Temple vessel, it is like any other flour offering in that it must be burned. The flour offerings of the following women must be burned: one who confesses infidelity or about whom witnesses testify that she committed adultery; one who refuses to drink; one whose husband does not want to make her drink; one whose husband was intimate with her on the way to the Temple. All the flour offerings of sotah women married to kohanim also had to be burned.