Exodus 23:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁹ I won’t drive them out before you in a single year so the land won’t be abandoned and the wild animals won’t multiply around you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ I will not cast them out from your face in one year, lest the land be reduced to a wilderness and the wild beasts increase against you.

Exodus 23:29 Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22

The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to make a quick end of them, otherwise the wild animals would become too numerous for you.

Joshua 16:10

They did not, however, drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived within Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

Joshua 15:63

But the people of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Exodus 23:30

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

Exodus 34:24

For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.