Numbers 31:7-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.

⁸ And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beer they killed with the sword.

⁹ And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered:

¹⁰ And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.

¹¹ And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both of men and of beasts.

¹² And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho.

¹³ And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.

¹⁴ And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,

¹⁵ Said: Why have you saved the women?

¹⁶ Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

¹⁷ Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

¹⁸ But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves: