You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

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

For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”

“The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.