Exodus 34:24 “For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders,…”

Exodus 34:24

For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

World English Bible

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.

American Standard Version

For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I wil cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy coasts, so that no man shall desire thy land, whe thou shalt come vp to appeare before the Lord thy God thrise in the yeere.

Darby Translation

For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year.

Young's Literal Translation

for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.

Bible in Basic English

For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

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Cross references

“I will”

Psalm 78:55 Exodus 33:2 Deuteronomy 7:1 Psalm 80:8 Exodus 34:11 Leviticus 18:24

Psalm 78:55 · BSB

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Exodus 33:2 · BSB

And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 7:1 · BSB

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven natio…

Psalm 80:8 · BSB

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Exodus 34:11 · BSB

Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Leviticus 18:24 · BSB

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

“enlarge”

Deuteronomy 12:20 1 Chronicles 4:10 Deuteronomy 19:8 Exodus 23:31

Deuteronomy 12:20 · BSB

When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

1 Chronicles 4:10 · BSB

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.

Deuteronomy 19:8 · BSB

And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,

Exodus 23:31 · BSB

And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

“desire”

Proverbs 16:7 Acts 18:10 Genesis 35:5 2 Chronicles 17:10 Job 1:10

Proverbs 16:7 · BSB

When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

Acts 18:10 · BSB

For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.”

Genesis 35:5 · BSB

As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

2 Chronicles 17:10 · BSB

And the dread of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

Job 1:10 · BSB

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

25Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

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