But Hobab replied,“ No, I will not go. I must return to my own land and family.”

何巴回答说：“我不去；我要回本地本族那里去。”

何巴对他说：“我不去，我要回本地本族去。”

何巴对他说：“我不去，我要回本地本族去。”

何巴说：“我不去了，我要回到我的家乡和亲族那里。”

何巴对摩西说：“我不去，我要归回我本地本族那里去。”

何巴回答說：「我不去；我要回本地本族那裏去。」

何巴對他說：「我不去，我要回本地本族去。」

何巴對他說：「我不去，我要回本地本族去。」

何巴說：「我不去了，我要回到我的家鄉和親族那裡。」

何巴對摩西說：“我不去，我要歸回我本地本族那裡去。”

何巴對摩西說：『我不去；我要往我本地我親族那裏去。』

何巴曰、我不偕往、將歸故鄉、返我宗族、

曰我不偕往、將歸故鄉、返我宗族、

曰、我不欲偕往、欲返故土、歸我宗族、

He answered,“ No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

Hobab answered,“ No. I can’t go. I’m going back to my own land. I’m returning to my own people.”

But he said to him,“ I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.”

But he replied to him,“ I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

But he said to him,“ I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives.”

And he said to him,“ I will not go, but I will depart to my own land and to my relatives.”

And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

But he replied to him,“ I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

But Hobab said to him,“ I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

He said to him,“ I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”

It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going.

“ If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else— your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

“ Look,” Naomi said to her,“ your sister in law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.”But Ruth replied,“ Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”

The son answered,‘ No, I won’t go,’ but later he changed his mind and went anyway.

I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father’s home. But why have you stolen my gods?”

The Lord had said to Abram,“ Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.

All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth.

So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!

Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your family far away.