¹⁰ “Now then, just as the Lord promised,^(A) he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved^(B) about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!^(C)

¹¹ I am still as strong^(A) today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous^(B) to go out to battle now as I was then.