Exodus 23:29

World English 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.

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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 beasts of the field multiply against thee.

Exodus 23:29 · American Standard Version

Exodus 23:29 in context

  1. 27I 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.
  2. 28I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
  3. 29I 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.
  4. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
  5. 31I 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.