11. And they took all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and beast.
12. And they brought the captives, and the booty, and the spoil to Mosheh, and to El‛azar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to the camp in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ by the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo.
13. And Mosheh, and El‛azar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.
14. But Mosheh was wroth with the officers of the army, with the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who had come from the campaign.
15. And Mosheh said to them, “Have you kept all the women alive?
16. “Look, they are the ones who caused the children of Yisra’ĕl, through the word of Bil‛am, to trespass against יהוה in the matter of Pe‛or, and there was a plague among the congregation of יהוה.
17. “And now, slay every male among the little ones. And every woman who has known a man by lying with a man you shall slay.
18. “But keep alive for yourselves all the female children who have not known a man by lying with a man.
19. “And you, camp outside the camp seven days. Whoever has slain any being, and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
20. “And cleanse every garment, and every object of leather and all the work of goats’ hair, and every object of wood.”