²⁷ I shall send my dread into thy before-going (I shall send the fear of me before thee), and I shall slay all the people, to which thou shalt enter, and I shall turn the backs of all thine enemies before thee;

²⁸ and I shall send out before thee crabrones, or stinging flies, that shall drive away (the) Hivite, and Canaanite, and Hittite, before that thou enter.

²⁹ (But) I shall not cast them out from thy face in one year, lest the land be turned into wilderness, and beasts increase against thee;