Exodus 23:29

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

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.

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27 I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.

28 I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

29 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.

30 Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

31 And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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Exodus 23:29 in every translation

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.
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.
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;
DBY Darby Translation: 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.
WBS Webster 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.