11 Then they took all the plunder, with the people and animals they had captured, and brought the captives, together with the spoils and plunder,
12 to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the Israelite community at their camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
13 When Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the leaders of the community, went outside the camp to meet them,
14 Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.
15 “So you have spared all the women!” he exclaimed.
16 “These are the very ones who on Balaam’s advice were behind the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to the Lord in the affair at Peor, so that plague struck the Lord’s community.
17 Now kill, therefore, every male among the children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.