Exodus 23:28-30

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁸ And I will send the pestilence^[a] in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. ²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply against you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.