זאת תורת הקנאות, המקנא יקנא בשילה ובבית העולמים. יכול אף בבמה ת״ל זאת: "This is the law of jealousies" — A husband may express his jealousy and subject his wife to the Sotah procedure both in Shiloh and in the eternal Temple. One might think this can also be done with a "Bamah" (a private altar), but the Torah states "this", indicating a limitation.
אשה תחת אישה, מה ת״ל אשה אשה בכל הפרשה לרבות אלמנה לכהן גדול גרושה וחלוצה לכהן הדיוט ממזרת ונתינה לישראל בת ישראל לממזר ולנתין ולעמוני ולמואבי מצרי ואדומי פצוע דכא וכרות שפכה לכותי ולחלל לרבות כל הפסולות שישתו. ר' אלעזר ברבי שמעון אומר אין משקין את הפסולות: "When a woman goes astray under her husband" — What does the Torah mean by "woman"? The term "woman" is repeated throughout this section to include various categories of women. This encompasses a widow married to a High Priest, a divorced woman or a woman who underwent the levirate marriage procedure (chalitzah) married to an ordinary priest, a mamzeret (a woman born from certain forbidden relationships) and a Nethinah (a member of a group assigned to perform menial tasks in the Temple) married to an Israelite, an Israelite woman married to a mamzer, Nethin, Ammonite, Moabite, Egyptian, or Edomite, a man with crushed or severed genitals married to a convert, and a profaned priestess (daughter of a priest and a woman forbidden to him). This includes all women who are disqualified but still undergo the Sotah procedure. Rabbi Elazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon, says that disqualified women are not subjected to the Sotah procedure.