Exodus 23:29

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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.

Cross References

Exodus 23:30

I will expel them little by little from your sight, until you have expanded and may possess the land.

Exodus 34:24

For when I will have taken away the nations before your face, and enlarged your borders, no one shall lie in wait against your land when you will go up to appear in the sight of the Lord your God, three times a year.

Deuteronomy 7:22

He himself will consume these nations in your sight, a little at a time, by degrees. You will not be able to destroy them all at once. Otherwise, the wild beasts of the earth might increase against you.

Joshua 15:63

But the sons of Judah were not able to destroy the Jebusite inhabitants of Jerusalem. And so the Jebusite lived with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem, even to the present day.

Joshua 16:10

And the sons of Ephraim did not put to death the Canaanite that was living at Gezer. And the Canaanite lived in the midst of Ephraim, even to this day, paying tribute.