³ Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword?^(A) Our wives and children^(B) will be taken as plunder.^(C) Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?^(D)”

⁹ The Israelites captured the Midianite women^(A) and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.^(B)

⁵³ Each soldier had taken plunder^(A) for himself.

³⁵ But the livestock^(A) and the plunder^(B) from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

²¹ When I saw in the plunder^(A) a beautiful robe from Babylonia,^[a] two hundred shekels^[b] of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels,^[c] I coveted^(B) them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”