Numbers 31:14-16

Lexham English Bible

¹⁴ But Moses was angry toward the leaders of the troops, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, who came from the battle of the war. ¹⁵ And Moses said to them, “You have kept alive every female? ¹⁶ Behold, these women caused^[a] the Israelites,^[b] by the word of Balaam, to be in apostasy against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was among the community of Yahweh.