World English Bible
Exodus 23:29
“I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.”
Verse in context — Exodus 23
I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
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God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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