408). They get to keep, however, ten pots of plants that had been distributed to them. After another victory, captives are assigned to the king’s choice of gods (ARM 26 436). Matters were similar in Israel. It is possible to infer that the jewelry Jacob’s children deliver to him for burial at the oak of Shechem (Gen 35:4) was looted from the city’s inhabitants. When God instructs Moses about saving Israel from Egypt, he predicts that Egyptians will willingly surrender their jewelry to their former