Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the borders thereof:)
The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.
And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty five years, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day eighty five years old.