Numbers 31:53
Good News Translation
Those who were not officers kept the loot they had taken.

New Revised Standard Version
(The troops had all taken plunder for themselves.)

Contemporary English Version
This did not include the things that the soldiers had kept for themselves.

New American Bible
What the common soldiers had looted each one kept for himself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

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For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

Deuteronomy 20:14 Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

Context
The Voluntary Offering
52In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions. 53For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.54And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.…
Cross References
Numbers 31:32
And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

Numbers 31:52
In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.

Deuteronomy 20:14
Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

Numbers 31:52
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