21 And Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “After you have gone and returned to Egypt see that YOU men actually perform all the miracles that I have put in your hand before Pharʹaoh.+ As for me, I shall let his heart become obstinate;*+ and he will not send the people away.+

14 Happy is the man that is feeling dread constantly,+ but he that is hardening his heart will fall into calamity.+

27 For the heart of this people has grown unreceptive,* and with their ears they have heard without response, and they have shut their eyes; that they should never see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn back, and I should heal them.”’+

5 But according to your hardness+ and unrepentant heart+ you are storing up wrath+ for yourself on the day of wrath+ and of the revealing+ of God’s righteous judgment.+

18 So, then, upon whom he wishes he has mercy,+ but whom he wishes he lets become obstinate.+