Ya`akov said to Shim`on and Levi, *You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kena`anim and the Perizzi. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.*
The children of Yisra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.