13. Then Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the people went out of the camp to meet with the soldiers.
14. Moses was very angry with the leaders of the army, the commanders of 1000 men, and the commanders of 100 men, who came back from the war.
15. Moses said to them, “Why did you let the women live?
16. These are the women who listened to Balaam and caused the men of Israel to turn away from the Lord that time at Peor. The disease will come to the Lord’S people again.
17. Now, kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations with a man.
18. You can let all the young girls live—but only if they never had sexual relations with any man.