So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance(A) and that of your children(B) forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’[a]

10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised,(C) he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved(D) about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!(E) 11 I am still as strong(F) today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous(G) to go out to battle now as I was then.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 14:9 Deut. 1:36

And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.

10 And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

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