Deuteronomy 7:22
World English Bible (WEB)
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.
In context
20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
21 You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
22 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.
23 But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy 7:22 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.