Exodus 23:28-31
23:28 I will send 1 hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals 2 multiply against you.
23:30 Little by little 3 I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
23:31 I will set 4 your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, 5 for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
1 tn Heb “and I will send.”
2 tn Heb “the beast of the field.”
3 tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).
4 tn The form is a perfect tense with vav consecutive.
5 tn In the Hebrew Bible “the River” usually refers to the Euphrates (cf. NASB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT). There is some thought that it refers to a river Nahr el Kebir between Lebanon and Syria. See further W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:447; and G. W. Buchanan, The Consequences of the Covenant (NovTSup), 91-100.