Numbers 31:14-16

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¹⁴ Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders over a thousand men, and those over a hundred men, who returned from war.

¹⁵ He asked them, “Why did you let the women live? ¹⁶ They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice [Jude 11] and turned the ·Israelites [^Lcommunity/assembly/congregation of Israel] from the Lord at Peor. Then a ·terrible sickness [plague] struck the Lord’s people [Num. 25].