Numbers 31:53
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New International Version (©2011)
Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All the fighting men had taken some of the plunder for themselves.

English Standard Version (©2001)
(The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.)

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

International Standard Version (©2012)
because every soldier had confiscated war booty for his own use.

NET Bible (©2006)
Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Each soldier kept his own loot.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

American King James Version
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

American Standard Version
( For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

Douay-Rheims Bible
For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

Darby Bible Translation
(The men of war had taken spoil each one for himself.)

English Revised Version
(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

Webster's Bible Translation
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

World English Bible
([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

Young's Literal Translation
(the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:48-54 The success of the Israelites had been very remarkable, so small a company overcoming such multitudes, but it was still more wonderful that not one was slain or missing. They presented the gold they found among the spoils, as an offering to the Lord. Thus they confessed, that instead of claiming a reward for their service, they needed forgiveness of much that had been amiss, and desired to be thankful for the preservation of their lives, which might justly have been taken away.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself. And which he kept for himself, and did not deliver in with the prey or booty, which was brought to Moses and Eleazar, the sum of which was taken by them; and this seems to confirm what has been hinted, that, as each soldier had taken spoil for himself, so everyone contributed his quota towards this freewill offering to the Lord.

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The Voluntary Offering
…52And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. 53(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) 54And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

Numbers 31:32 The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep,
Numbers 31:52 All the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds that Moses and Eleazar presented as a gift to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.
Deuteronomy 20:14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.