9 The Israelites captured every woman and child, then led away the Midianites' cattle and sheep, and took everything else that belonged to them.
10 They also burnt down the Midianite towns and villages.
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.