Joshua 8:27
Good News Translation
The Israelites kept for themselves the livestock and goods captured in the city, as the LORD had told Joshua.

New Revised Standard Version
Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the LORD that he had issued to Joshua.

Contemporary English Version
But the Israelites took the animals and the other possessions of the people of Ai, because this was what the LORD had told Joshua to do.

New American Bible
However, the Israelites took for themselves as plunder the livestock and the spoil of that city, according to the command of the LORD issued to Joshua.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Joshua.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Joshua.

the cattle

Joshua 8:2 And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.

Joshua 11:4 And they all came out with their troops, a people exceeding numerous as the sand that is on the sea shore, their horses also and chariots a very great multitude,

Numbers 31:22,26 Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, . . .

Psalm 50:10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

Matthew 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

he commanded

Joshua 8:2 And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.

Context
The Conquest of Ai
26But Joshua drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on high, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain. 27And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Joshua.28And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:…
Cross References
Joshua 8:2
And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.

Joshua 8:28
And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:

Joshua 8:26
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