Deuteronomy 10 · Verse 16

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy 10:16, King James Version

Deuteronomy 10:16 in other translations

BSBCircumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
WEBCircumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
ASVCircumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
YLTand ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
DARBYCircumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
BBELet your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.
WebsterCircumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

What does Deuteronomy 10:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 10:10-22

10-22. Moses here resumes his address, and having made a passing allusion to the principal events in their history, concludes by exhorting them to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Circumcise - the foreskin of your heart - A plain proof from God himself that this precept pointed out spiritual things, and that it was not the cutting away a part of the flesh that was the object of the Divine commandment, but the purification of the soul, without which all forms and ceremonies are of no avail. Loving God with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength, the heart being circumcised to enable them to do it, was, from the beginning, the end, design, and fulfillment of the whole law.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:12-22

We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he has appointed us to walk. We must serve him with all our heart and soul. What we do in his service we must do cheerfully, and with good will. We must keep his commandments. There is true honour and pleasure in obedience. We…

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Deuteronomy 10:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּמַלְתֶּ֕םu.mal.Temand you will circumciseH4135
אֵ֖ת'et<obj.>H853
עָרְלַ֣ת'a.re.Lat[the] foreskin ofH6190
לְבַבְכֶ֑םle.vav.Khemheart yourH3824
וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔םve.'A.re.pe.Khemand neck yourH6203
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תַקְשׁ֖וּtak.Shuyou will make stiffH7185
עֽוֹד\׃odagainH5750

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 10:16

  • Jeremiah 4:4

    Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • Deuteronomy 30:6

    And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

  • Leviticus 26:41

    And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

  • Colossians 2:11

    In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

  • Romans 2:28-29

    For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  • Deuteronomy 9:6

    Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

  • Jeremiah 4:14

    O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

  • Deuteronomy 9:13

    Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

  • Deuteronomy 31:27

    For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?

  • James 4:6-7

    But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Circumcise.
30:6; Le 26:41; Jer 4:4,14; Ro 2:28,29; Col 2:11
stiff-necked.
9:6,13; 31:27; Jas 4:6,7

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 10:15

    Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

  • Deuteronomy 10:16

    Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

  • Deuteronomy 10:17

    For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

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Deuteronomy 10:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Circuncidad pues el prepucio de vuestro corazón, y no endurezcáis más vuestra cerviz.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Circoncisez donc votre cœur, et ne roidissez plus votre cou;
German
Elberfelder 1871		So beschneidet denn die Vorhaut eures Herzens und verhärtet euren Nacken nicht mehr!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Circumcidite igitur præputium cordis vestri, et cervicem vestram ne induretis amplius: