11 Israel's soldiers gathered together everything they had taken from the Midianites, including the captives and the animals.
12-13 Then they returned to their own camp in the hills of Moab across the River Jordan from Jericho, where Moses, Eleazar, and the other Israelite leaders met the troops outside camp.
14 Moses became angry with the army commanders
15 and said, “I can't believe you let the women live!
16 They are the ones who followed Balaam's advice and invited our people to worship the god Baal-Peor. That's why the Lord punished us by killing so many of our people.
17 You must put to death every boy and all the women who have ever had sex.
18 But do not kill the young women who have never had sex. You may keep them for yourselves.”