23:28 I will send 1 hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals 2 multiply against you.
23:30 Little by little 3 I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
1 tnHeb “and I will send.”
2 tnHeb “the beast of the field.”
3 tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).