Exodus 23:30

23:30 Little by little ¹  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

Exodus 23:29

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.

Exodus 34:11

34:11 “Obey ³  what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out ⁴  before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 23:31

23:31 I will set ⁵  your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, ⁶  for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:24

34:24 For I will drive out ⁷  the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet ⁸  your land when you go up ⁹  to appear before the Lord your God three times ¹⁰  in the year.

[23:30]  ¹ tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).

[23:29]  ² tn Heb “the beast of the field.”

[34:11]  ³ tn The covenant duties begin with this command to “keep well” what is being commanded. The Hebrew expression is “keep for you”; the preposition and the suffix form the ethical dative, adding strength to the imperative.

[34:11]  ⁴ tn Again, this is the futur instans use of the participle.

[23:31]  ⁴ tn The form is a perfect tense with vav consecutive.

[23:31]  ⁵ tn In the Hebrew Bible “the River” usually refers to the Euphrates (cf. NASB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT). There is some thought that it refers to a river Nahr el Kebir between Lebanon and Syria. See further W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:447; and G. W. Buchanan, The Consequences of the Covenant (NovTSup), 91-100.

[34:24]  ⁵ tn The verb is a Hiphil imperfect of יָרַשׁ (yarash), which means “to possess.” In the causative stem it can mean “dispossess” or “drive out.”

[34:24]  ⁶ sn The verb “covet” means more than desire; it means that some action will be taken to try to acquire the land that is being coveted. It is one thing to envy someone for their land; it is another to be consumed by the desire that stops at nothing to get it (it, not something like it).

[34:24]  ⁷ tn The construction uses the infinitive construct with a preposition and a suffixed subject to form the temporal clause.

[34:24]  ⁸ tn The expression “three times” is an adverbial accusative of time.