Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
"Caleb represents all of Israel as one who receives an allotment and takes the land for himself." [Note: Hess, p. 239.] 