15 “Have[a] you let every female live?” he asked them. 16 “Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.(A) 17 So now, kill all the male children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man,

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  1. Numbers 31:15 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg read Why have

15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,(B) so that a plague(C) struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,(D)

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