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The other men who went with me frightened the people, but I fully believed the Lord would allow us to take the land. So that day Moses promised me, ‘The land where you went will become your land, and your children will own it forever. I will give you that land because you fully believed in the Lord, my God.’

10 “Now then, the Lord has kept his promise. He has kept me alive for forty-five years from the time he said this to Moses during the time we all wandered in the desert. Now here I am, eighty-five years old.

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but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear.(A) I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.(B) So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance(C) and that of your children(D) forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’[a]

10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised,(E) he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved(F) about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 14:9 Deut. 1:36