Numbers 31:13-17
13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
14 But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.
15 “Have(a) you let every female live?” he asked them.
16 “Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.(A)
17 So now, kill all the male children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man,
Footnotes:
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Numbers 31:15: Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg read Why have