“The LORD 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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 7 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.