Numbers 31:15 YLT

¹³  And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,

¹⁴  and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle.

¹⁵  And Moses saith unto them, 'Have ye kept alive every female?

¹⁶  lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

¹⁷  'And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;