The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
Numbers 10:30 - New International Version (Anglicised) He answered, ‘No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and 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 had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?’
Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house.
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own country.
‘What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, “Son, go and work today in the vineyard.”
‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my disciple.
So from now on we regard no-one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
The descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.