¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses,^{(A) 17} “Treat the Midianites^(B) as enemies^(C) and kill them.^{(D) 18} They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident^(E) involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”