So Naaman went down to the Jordan, dipped himself in it seven times, as Elisha had instructed, and he was completely cured. His flesh became firm and healthy like that of a child.

Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good.

But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the LORD said that to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the LORD, as he promised, has kept me alive ever since. Look at me! I am eighty-five years old

and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else.

He fills my life with good things, so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.

I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. She will respond to me there as she did when she was young, when she came from Egypt.