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Numbers 31:10-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

10. Both their cities and their villages, as well as their fortresses, they burned.

11. And they carried away prey from everything that they had seized, both of men and of beasts.

12. And they led these to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the sons of Israel. But the remainder of the articles they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, next to the Jordan, opposite Jericho.

13. Then Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the assembly went out to meet them beyond the camp.

14. And Moses, being angry with the leaders of the army, and the tribunes, and the centurions, who had arrived from the battle,

15. said: "Why have you spared the females?

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