Deuteronomy 20:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ You may, however, take as your plunder the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ But the women, the little ones, the beasts, and all that is in the city, all the spoil in it, you shall take for yourselves; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ However, you can take for yourselves the women, the children, the animals, and all that is in the city—all its plunder. You can then enjoy your enemies’ plunder, which the LORD your God has given you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ but not the women and young children, nor the cattle and the other things that are within the city. And you shall divide all the plunder to the soldiers, and you shall eat the spoils from your enemies, which the Lord your God will give to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army: and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

Deuteronomy 20:14 Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:25

When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil from them, they found livestock in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They spent three days taking the spoil because of its abundance.

Psalm 68:12

“The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil,

Numbers 31:11

but they took all the spoil and all the plunder, both people and animals.

Numbers 31:12

Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the Israelites, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

Numbers 31:15

Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?

Numbers 31:18

But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Numbers 31:9

The Israelites took the women of Midian and their little ones captive, and they plundered all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.

Deuteronomy 2:35

Only the livestock we kept as spoil for ourselves, as well as the plunder of the towns that we had captured.

Deuteronomy 20:15

Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of these nations here.

Joshua 11:14

All the spoil of these towns and the livestock the Israelites plundered for themselves, but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.

Joshua 22:8

he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with a great quantity of clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your kindred.”

Joshua 8:2

You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may take its spoil and plunder its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city, behind it.”