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