Numbers 31:18
“The same angel, however, said to the Virgin Mary, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you"; the one who will be in you is already with you. "Blessed are you among women." Holy Scripture bears witness to the fact that in the proper usage of the Hebrew language all females are habitually called women; in case some of…”
Source: Septuagint
18And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive.
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16For they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Peor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.
17Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man.
— Numbers 31:18 —
19And ye shall encamp outside the great camp seven days; everyone who has slain and who touches a dead body, shall be purified on the third day, and ye and your captivity shall purify yourselves on the seventh day.
20And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.