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Then was Moses sore displeased with the officers of the force, - the princes of thousands, and the princes of hundreds who were coming in from the warring host.

And Moses said unto them, - Have ye saved alive every female?

Lo! they, became unto the sons of Israel, by the advice of Balaam, the cause of daring acts of treachery against Yahweh, over the affair of Peor, - and then came the plague against the assembly of Yahweh!

Now, therefore, slay ye every male among the young, - every woman also that hath cohabited with man, slay ye.

But all the young of womankind that hay, not cohabited with man, preserve alive for yourselves.