I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against you.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Beasts. Herod the great killed many in hunting. (Josephus, Jewish Wars i. 16.) Two bears rushed upon the children, 4 Kings ii. 24. How much would they have increased in all the countries from the Euphrates to the Nile, had they been destitute of any other inhabitants but the Hebrews, (Calmet) many of whom perished in the desert!
