Numbers 31:15-17

Lexham English Bible

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. ¹⁷ Now kill every male among the little children, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.^[c]