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Collective Punishment

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Moses dispatches his army, which quickly kills the five Midianite kings and slaughters all the Midianite men … The Israelites capture all the Midianite women and children and march them back to camp. Moses is furious that the Midianite women have been spared [and] orders his troops to execute all the Midianite boys and all the Midianite females except for the virgins … 32,000 virgin females survive the mass execution (and were then enslaved … the Israelites killed more than 60,000 captive, defenseless women and boys.

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