• to ignore the property (whether money or some possessions) and let the owner find it for himself • to hide the property and make it even more difficult for the owner to find • to destroy the property so that one’s enemy could never recover it • to steal the property and keep it for one’s own use But note the clear instructions of the law: the person was not allowed to keep nor to ignore the property of his enemy. On the contrary, he was to go the extra mile and personally take the property back