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class="card-header-title text-primary">Summary</h5> </div> <div class="col-auto"> <strong>Date:</strong> 190-230 C.E. </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-body pt-3"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-12" style="font-size: .9rem" class="mb-0"> <p class="pb-0 mb-0">Sotah (Wayward Wife) belongs to the third order, Nashim (Women) and discusses the ritual of the Sotah – the woman suspected of adultery (Num 5) as well as other rituals involving a spoken formula (such as breaking the heifer's neck, the King's septa-annual public Torah reading, the Blessings and Curses of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, etc...). 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