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29 But I will not force all of them out of your land quickly. I will not do this in only one year. The land will be empty if I force the people out too fast. Then all the wild animals would increase and control the land. And they would be much trouble for you. 30 So I will force them out of your land very slowly. I will do this as you grow and eventually take the land to be your own.

31 “I will give you all the land from the Red Sea[a] to the Mediterranean Sea,[b] and from the desert of Sinai to the Euphrates River. I will let you defeat the people living there and force them all to leave.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:31 Red Sea Or “Reed Sea,” probably the part known as the Gulf of Aqaba. See 1 Kings 9:26.
  2. Exodus 23:31 Mediterranean Sea Literally, “Philistine Sea.”

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