Exodus 23:29
“I will not driue them out from before thee in one yeere, lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.”
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Exodus 23:29 Context
27I will send my feare before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto thee. 28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall driue out the Hiuite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. 29I will not driue them out from before thee in one yeere, lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. 30By little and little I will driue them out from before thee, vntill thou be increased and inherit the land. 31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea, euen vnto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert vnto the riuer: for I will deliuer the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt driue them out before thee.
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I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
- King James Version
"I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
- American Standard Version (1901)
I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.
- Basic English Bible
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year: lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
- Darby Bible
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land should become desolate, and the beast of the field should multiply against thee.
- Webster's Bible
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
- World English Bible
I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;
- Youngs Literal Bible
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible