^{10 Ref} And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

^{11 Ref} And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.