Numbers 31:9-16 The Israelites took the Midianite women and children as prisoners of war. They also took all their animals, their livestock, and their valuables as loot.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ The Israelites took the Midianite women and children as prisoners of war. They also took all their animals, their livestock, and their valuables as loot. ¹⁰ They burned the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements. ¹¹ They took everything as loot including all the people and animals, ¹² They brought the captives, the war-booty, and the plunder to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the Israelites, to the camp to the desert-plateau of Moab, which was on the Jordan across Jericho. ¹³ And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp. ¹⁴ And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle. ¹⁵ and said unto them, "Have ye saved the women alive? ¹⁶ Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of the LORD.