Deuteronomy 7:22
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
In context
20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
22 The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
23 But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
Deuteronomy 7:22 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
- KJV King James Version
- And 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Jehovah thy God will cast 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little [by] little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the LORD thy God will drive 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.