The Lord said to Abram: Go from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
Numbers 10:30 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But he replied to him, ‘I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Hobab said to him, I will not go; I will depart to my own land and to my family. American Standard Version (1901) And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. Common English Bible Hobab said to him, “I won’t go; I’d rather go to my land and to my folk.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he answered him, "I will not go with you, but I will return to my own land, in which I was born." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born. |
The Lord said to Abram: Go from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family #– #but why have you stolen my gods? ’
‘What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, “My son, go and work in the vineyard today.”
‘He answered, “I don’t want to,” but later he changed his mind and went.
‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters #– #yes, and even his own life #– #he cannot be my disciple.
From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.
These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.
The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms , to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.