13. Moses, Eleazar, and all the other leaders of the community went out of the camp to meet the army.
14. Moses was angry with the officers, the commanders of battalions and companies, who had returned from the war.
15. He asked them, “Why have you kept all the women alive?
16. Remember that it was the women who followed Balaam's instructions and at Peor led the people to be unfaithful to the Lord. That was what brought the epidemic on the Lord's people.