Numbers 31:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Moses became angry with the commanders of the army, the officers of thousands and the officers of hundreds, who came back from the battle. ¹⁵ Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live? ¹⁶ These very women, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites break faith with the Lord in the affair at Peor, so there was a plague among the Lord’s community.