 Adulterous married women and adulterous betrothed women, and their male accomplices however, were subject to the death penalty by the biblical laws against adultery, According to the Priestly Code of the Book of Numbers, if a woman was suspected of adultery, she was to be subjected to the Ordeal of Bitter Water, a form of trial by ordeal, but one that took a miracle to convict.The literary prophets indicate that adultery was a frequent occurrence, despite their strong protests against it, and these legal strictnesses.The Talmud sets a minimum provision which a husband must provide to his wife