Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.
Exodus 23:29 - New Revised Standard Version I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply against you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. |
Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.
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.
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.
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.
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.