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The Voluntary Offering

Numbers 31:53

In 11 translations

BSB
Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.
KJV
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
WEB
The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
ASV
(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
LSV
(the men of the host have each taken spoil for himself);
YLT
(the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);
DBY
(The men of war had taken spoil each one for himself.)
DRC
For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.
GNV
(For the men of warre had spoyled, euery man for him selfe)
JPS
For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. —
LXXE
For the men of war took plunder every one for himself.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אַנְשֵׁי֙ הַצָּבָ֔א בָּזְז֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ לֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταὶ ἐπρονόμευσαν ἕκαστος ἑαυτῷ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 20:14But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
  • Numbers 31:32and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

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