Exodus 23:29

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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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27 I 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.

28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

29 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.

30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

31 I 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.

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Exodus 23:29 in every translation

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.
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.
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.
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.