Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you.
International Standard Version
I won't drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
I will not drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate [due to lack of attention] and the [wild] animals of the field do not become too numerous for you.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee.
King James 2000
I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and {the wild animals} multiply against you.
Modern King James verseion
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply against you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land grow to a wilderness: and the beasts of the field multiply upon thee.
NET Bible
I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
I will not drive them out from before thee, in one year, - lest the land should become a desolation, so would the wild-beast of the field multiply over thee.
Webster
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land should become desolate, and the beast of the field should multiply against thee.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;
Topics
Interlinear
Garash
Paniym
'echad
Shaneh (in pl. only),
'erets
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 23:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Reasons For Loyal Obedience
28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face. 29 I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you. 30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:22
The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
Joshua 15:63
And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
Joshua 16:10
And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
Joshua 17:12-13
But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.
Judges 3:1-4
Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;