And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.
And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,
And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.
And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;
And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;
The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.
And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.
The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.
The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,
The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.
And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.
And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.
But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.
And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants.
And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the people go, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.
And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go.
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.
I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.
For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.
But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.
And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.
And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.
For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;
But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,
Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it?
Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
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