¹⁴ But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign. ¹⁵ “Have^[a] you let every female live?” he asked them. ¹⁶ “Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.^{(A) 17} So now, kill all the male children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man, ¹⁸ but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.