10 They burned all the cities where they lived and their encampments.
11 They took all the spoils of war and the valuable property, both human and animal,
12 and they brought the captives, the valuable property, and the spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
14 Moses became angry with the commanders of the army, the officers of thousands and the officers of hundreds, who came back from the battle.
15 Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
16 These very women, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites break faith with the Lord in the affair at Peor, so there was a plague among the Lord’s community.