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10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

11 Yet I am as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so is my strength now for war and to go out and to come in.

12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke that day. For you heard then how the [giantlike] Anakim were there and that the cities were great and fortified; if the Lord will be with me, I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.

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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(D) today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous(E) to go out to battle now as I was then. 12 Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.(F) You yourself heard then that the Anakites(G) were there and their cities were large and fortified,(H) but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

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