“And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.”
And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they took as spoil — the herds and non-combatants become Israel's possession, part of the war-plunder system. The taking of women and children is historically contextualized as ancient Near Eastern practice, yet raises ethical tensions that later Jewish interpretation sometimes addressed through stricter regulations.
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