But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.

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

but we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell 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 has proceeded out of your mouth.”

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead;