Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he commanded Joshua.
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
“Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation,
only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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