Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,

but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”

Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead,