Numbers 31:16

16 Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!

Numbers 31:16 In-Context

14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.
15 Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?
16 Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!
17 Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.
18 But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
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