Numbers 31:13-18

NUMBERS—NOTE ON Numbers 31:13 Normally in wars outside Canaan, the women were spared (Deuteronomy 20:14). But because these women had seduced the Israelites, they had to be killed (compare Numbers 25:6). Killing every male among the little ones would end the Midianite nation. Girls without sexual experience, who were not involved with the sin of Baal-peor, were allowed to live and marry Israelite warriors.