What did Moses his soldiers to do to the Midianites in Numbers 31?


To kill all the males and all the non-virgin females

Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Numbers 31:17-18

Women of Midian led captive by Israelite soldiers. Watercolour by James Tissot (c. 1900).

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