KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Exodus 23:29
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB 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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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;
Surrounding context — Exodus 23
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 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.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לֹ֧אH3808 · lonotאֲגָרְשֶׁ֛נּוּH1644 · ga.rashto drive out: drive outמִפָּנֶ֖יךָH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeבְּשָׁנָ֣הH8141 · sha.nehyearאֶחָ֑תH259 · e.chadoneפֶּן־H6435 · penlestתִּהְיֶ֤הH1961 · ha.yahto beהָאָ֙רֶץ֙H776 · e.retsland: country/planetשְׁמָמָ֔הH8077 · she.ma.mahdevastationוְרַבָּ֥הH7231 · ra.vavto multiplyעָלֶ֖יךָH5921 · aluponחַיַּ֥תH2416 · chayaliveהַשָּׂדֶֽה׃H7704 · sa.daySirion
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 7:22And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.Joshua 17:12-13Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.Judges 3:1-4Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;Joshua 16:10And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.Joshua 15:63As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
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