Its heart ¹  is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

“Your father made us work too hard. ¹  Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” ² 

“Your father made us work too hard! ¹  Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” ² 

You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could, ¹ 

when the waters become hard ¹  like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

You have made your people experience hard times; ¹  you have made us drink intoxicating wine. ² 

who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water! ¹ 

You ¹  will eat what you worked so hard to grow. ²  You will be blessed and secure. ³ 

In all hard work ¹  there is profit, but merely talking about it ²  only brings ³  poverty. ⁴ 

For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. ¹ 

The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ¹  because they are not willing to listen to me, ²  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ³ 

¹ Moses told this ²  to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him ³  because of their discouragement ⁴  and hard labor.

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, ¹  and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; ²  he refuses to release ³  the people.

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them. ¹ 

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

They worked hard and made the repairs. ¹  They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it. ²