And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
And he saith unto him, `I do not go; but unto my land and unto my kindred do I go.'
“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
And he said to him, I will not go; but to mine own land, and to my kindred will I go.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC