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Deuteronomy 7:22
Deuteronomy 7:22 is verse 22 of Deuteronomy chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
King James Version
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
World English Bible
Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
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Deuteronomy 7:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
22 The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
23 But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 23:29I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
Exodus 23:30Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
Joshua 15:63But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.