Numbers 31 tells a story of the Israelites defeating the Midianites. In verse 17-18 Moses allows the soldiers to keep the young virgin women they have captured.
Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man. But all the young women who have not had sexual intercourse with a man will be yours.
Deuteronomy later gives clear instructions on how one should proceed with a woman captured during war.
Deut 21:11-14 (NET)
if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife, you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails, discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife. If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
And a victory song in Judges talks about "a woman or two for each man" as spoils of war.
Judges 5:29-30 (NIV)
The wisest of her ladies answer her;
indeed, she keeps saying to herself,
‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:
a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments for my neck—
all this as plunder?’
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