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Exodus 23:29
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.
Exodus 23:29 · World English Bible
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Exodus 23:29 in other translations
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.
I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
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.
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In context
26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
29 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.
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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