Numbers 31:15-17

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁵ And Moses said to them, “What? Have you saved all the women?

¹⁶ “Behold, these caused the children of Israel (through the counsel of Balaam) to commit a trespass against the LORD as concerning Peor. And there came a plague among the Congregation of the LORD.

¹⁷ “Now, therefore, kill all the males among the children, and kill all the women that have known man by carnal copulation.