⁷ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(A)sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. ⁸ Nevertheless ^(B)my brethren who went up with me made the ^[a]heart of the people melt, but I wholly ^(C)followed the Lord my God. ⁹ So Moses swore on that day, saying, ^(D)‘Surely the land ^(E)where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^(F)alive, ^(G)as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel ^[b]wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. ^11 (H)As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both ^(I)for going out and for coming in. ¹² Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how ^(J)the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. ^(K)It may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^(L)I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”