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Exodus 23:29
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27 “I will send aMy fear before you, I will bcause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.  
28 And aI will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.  
29 aI will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.  
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.
31 And aI will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the River. For I will bdeliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.  
Verse Comparison: Exodus 23:29

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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.

Amplified® Bible
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate [for lack of attention] and the wild beasts multiply against you.

Contemporary English Version
But I won't do all this in the first year, because the land would become poor, and wild animals would be everywhere.

Darby English 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.

Good News Bible
I will not drive them out within a year's time; if I did, the land would become deserted, and the wild animals would be too many for you.

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.

New American Standard Bible
"I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

New International Version
But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

New King James Version
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
" I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

Revised Standard Version
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

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;


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