"And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it."

So they went out, they and all their armies with them, [as] many people [as] the sand that [is] on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

"Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

"Count up the plunder that was taken -- of man and beast -- you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation;

For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, [And] the cattle on a thousand hills.

'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?'