⁵ But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.

⁸ He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

¹⁶ But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

¹⁷ And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

⁶ Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

²⁷ For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

²⁶ But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

⁹ When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

¹⁰ So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;