Numbers 31
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Numbers 31:7-17

7And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and slew all the males.

8And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the others slain, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

9And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took for a spoil all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods;

10and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.

11And they took all the booty, and all the prey, of man and of cattle;

12and they brought to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the children of Israel, the captives and the prey and the booty, to the camp in the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan of Jericho.

13And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly went forth to meet them outside the camp.

14And Moses was wroth with the officers of the army, with the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war;

15and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

16Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.

17And now slay every male among the little ones, and slay every woman that hath known man by lying with him,

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