Deuteronomy 7:22
Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
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- Exodus 23:29–30 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
- Joshua 15:63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.