¹⁵ and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

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,