“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 23 contains 33 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.