Exodus 23:29-33 I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.

AKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you. ³⁰ By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land. ³¹ And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you. ³² You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.