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

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

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

When the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.

for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death!

At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.