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Numbers 10:30

28 This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

31 “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

32 If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
KJV
And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
WEB
He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
ASV
And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
DARBY
And he said to him, I will not go; but to mine own land, and to my kindred will I go.
BLB
And he said to him, “I will not go. But I will depart to my land and to my relatives.”
ÅB
Men han svarte: Jeg vil ikke gå med, jeg vil dra hjem til mitt land og min slekt.
OTB
Han svarte: "Jeg vil ikke dra; jeg vender tilbake til mitt eget land og mitt eget folk."
B1930
Men han svarte: Jeg vil ikke gå med, jeg vil dra hjem til mitt land og min slekt.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 31:30

    Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

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  • Ruth 1:15–17

    “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

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  • Hebrews 11:13

    All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

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  • Genesis 12:1

    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

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  • Psalms 45:10

    Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

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  • Hebrews 11:8

    By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

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  • Luke 14:26

    “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

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  • 2 Corinthians 5:16

    So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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