OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 23:29

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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.

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Verse 29. Beasts. Herod the great killed many in hunting. Josep. Bel. i. 16. Two bears rushed upon the children, 4 Kennicott. 2:24. How much would they have increased in all the countries from the Euphrates to the Nile, had they been destitute of any other inhabitants but the Hebrews, ( Calmet.) many of whom perished in the desert!

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