Joshua 8:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel plundered for themselves, according to the word of the Lord that he had issued to Joshua.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He commanded Joshua.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

Common English Bible

²⁷ However, Israel did take the cattle and other booty of that city as plunder for themselves, in agreement with the command that the LORD had given Joshua.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Then the sons of Israel divided among themselves the cattle and the plunder of the city, just as the Lord had instructed Joshua.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And the children of Israel divided among them the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.

Joshua 8:27 Cross References

Psalm 50:10

For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

Numbers 31:22

gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Numbers 31:26

“You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral houses of the congregation make an inventory of the plunder captured, both human and animal.

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Deuteronomy 3:7

But all the livestock and the plunder of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.

Joshua 11:4

They came out, with all their troops, a great army, in number like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

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.”

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.