Thomson(i)
7 And they drew up in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male;
8 and in the slaughter they slew the kings of Madian, Evin, and Rokon, and Sur, and Ur, and Robok, the five kings of Madian. They slew also Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword among their slain.
9 And having taken for a prey the women of the Madianites, and their furniture, and their cattle, and all their goods, and spoiled their army,
10 and burned all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their sheepcots, with fire,
11 and taken all the prey thereof, and all the spoils thereof, both of man and beast,
12 they brought to Moses, and Eleazar, and to all the Israelites, the captives, and the spoils, and the prey, to the camp at Araboth-Moab, on the Jordan, over against Jericho.
13 And when Moses went out, accompanied with Eleazar the priest, and all the chiefs of the congregation, to meet them without the camp,
14 Moses was angry at the officers of the army; at the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, who came from the war.
15 And Moses said to them, Why have you saved all the women alive?
16 For they, by the direction of Balaam, were the cause of Israel's apostatizing, and transgressing the commands of the Lord, for the sake of Phogor: and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the captives. Kill also every woman, who hath lain with man.
18 But save alive, for yourselves, every captive among the women, who hath not known a man.