The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country and your people. Leave your father’s family and go to the country I will show you.
Numbers 10:30 - Easy To Read Version But Hobab answered, “No, I will not go with you. I will go back to my homeland and to my own people.” 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, “Leave your country and your people. Leave your father’s family and go to the country I will show you.
I know that you want to go back to your home. That is why you left. But why did you steal the gods from my house?”
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After a short time, Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law Jethro. And Jethro went back to his own home.
“Tell me what you think about this: There was a man that had two sons. The man went to the first son and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
“The son answered, ‘I will not go.’ But later the son decided he should go, and the son went.
“If a person comes to me, but will not leave his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, or sisters, then that person cannot be my follower. A person must love me more than he loves anything—even his own life!
That is why we never become weak. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day.
All those great men continued living with faith until they died. Those men did not get the things that God promised his people. The men only saw those things coming far in the future and were glad. Those men accepted the fact that they were like visitors and strangers on earth.
God called Abraham to travel to another place that God promised to give Abraham. Abraham did not know where that other place was. But Abraham obeyed God and started traveling, because Abraham had faith.
The Kenite people left the City of Palm Trees (Jericho) and went with the men of Judah. Those people went to the Desert of Judah to live with the people there. This was in the Negev [8] near the city Arad. (The Kenite people were from the family of Moses’ father-in-law.)