10. All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,
11. and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast.
12. Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
13. Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
14. And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.
15. Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live?
16. Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.
17. Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.