¹⁶ Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.

¹⁷ And now slay every male among the little ones, and slay every woman that hath known man by lying with him,

¹⁸ but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.