Numbers 10:30
Good News Translation
Hobab answered, "No, I am going back to my native land."

New Revised Standard Version
But he said to him, “I will not go, but I will go back to my own land and to my kindred.”

Contemporary English Version
"No, I won't go," Hobab answered. "I'm returning home to be with my own people."

New American Bible
But he answered, “No, I will not come. I am going instead to the land of my birth.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.

Genesis 12:1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Genesis 31:30 Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

Ruth 1:15-17 And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her gods, go thou with her. . . .

Psalm 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Hebrews 11:8,13 By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went. . . .

Context
From Sinai to Paran
29And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel. 30But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.31And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.…
Cross References
Matthew 21:28
But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

Matthew 21:29
And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved with repentance, he went.

Exodus 18:27
And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.

Judges 1:16
And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman of Moses, went up from the city of palms, with the children of Juda, into the wilderness of his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they dwelt with him.

Numbers 10:29
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