You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza<n id="1" /> and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. It will be an abandoned ruin<n id="2" /> forever &#8211; it must never be rebuilt again.

Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho<n id="1" /> and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!&#8221;p>

However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city &#8211; all its plunder &#8211; you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.

Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth, capture her loot, and seize her plunder; it will be his army&#8217;s wages.