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10 And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked 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, and to go out and to come in. 12 Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof Jehovah spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Jehovah spake.

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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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