Exodus 23:29 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁹ 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.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

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.

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 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.

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.