¹⁰ So then, look, Yahweh has kept me alive just as he promised these forty-five years,^[a] from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered^[b] in the wilderness. Now look, today I am eighty-five years old.^{[c] 11} Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so now also is my strength for war and for daily activities.^{[d] 12} So now give me this hill country that Yahweh spoke of on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakites were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps Yahweh is with me, and I will drive them out just as Yahweh promised.”^[e]