Devarim 3:7

7 But all the behemah (livestock), and the plunder of the towns, we took for booty to ourselves.

Devarim 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 3:7

But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities
The oxen and sheep, camels and asses; their gold and silver, and the furniture of their houses; their stores of corn, and of other fruits of the earth, even all their substance of whatsoever kind:

we took for a prey to ourselves;
made them their own property, and used them for their own profit and service, whereby they became greatly enriched.

Devarim 3:7 In-Context

5 All these towns were walled with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns harbeh me’od (very many).

6 And in cherem we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sichon Melech Cheshbon, in cherem utterly destroying the men, nashim, and little ones, of every town.

7 But all the behemah (livestock), and the plunder of the towns, we took for booty to ourselves.

8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two melachim of the Emori the land that was on this side [i.e., east of the] Yarden, from the Wadi Arnon unto Mt Chermon;

9 (Which Chermon the Tzidonim call Siryon; and the Emori call it Senir;)