and the offerings for different occasions are enumerated. Moses orders the Israelites to massacre the people of Midian, in retaliation for the Baal-Peor incident. Specifically, all Midianite men and boys and women who are not virgins are killed. Virgin Midianite women and girls are kept alive, counted, and distributed as prizes, along with the sheep, cattle and donkeys, to the officers of the Israelite army.

The Reubenites and the Gadites