10 “As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these forty-five years as he promised,(A) since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks[a] is now as it was then.(B) 12 Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there,(C) as well as large fortified cities.(D) Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:11 Lit for going out and coming in

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.

12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.

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