Deuteronomy - 2:35



35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 2:35.

Differing Translations

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Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:
only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.
Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.
except the cattle, which went to the share of those who plundered them. And we seized the spoils of the cities,
Veruntamen jumenta praedati sumus nobis, et spolia; urbium quas cepimus.

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Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves,.... These they did not destroy, but preserved alive for their own use and profit, and took them as their own property:
and the spoil of the cities which we took; as household goods, gold, silver, and whatever valuable was found by them; this they took as plunder, and shared it among themselves.

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