Deuteronomy 30:6
in Deuteronomy 30The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
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ASV
And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 30
Commentary
8 notes on this verseGod will circumcise thine heart - This promise remains yet to be fulfilled. Their heart, as a people, has never yet been circumcised; nor have the various promises in this chapter been ever yet fulfilled. There remaineth, therefore, a rest for this people of God.
This site's exposition
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts
on Deuteronomy 30:6-7
At 10:16 the people were commanded to circumcise their hearts, and here God undertakes the act himself. Jeremiah 31:33 and Ezekiel 36:26 carry the promise, and Paul takes it up at Romans 2:29.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices
Circumcision was a seal of the covenant; the heart is then circumcised to love God when it is strongly engaged and held by that bond to this duty. [2.] It is the work of God's grace to circumcise the heart, and to shed abroad the love of God there; and this grace is given to all that repent and seek it carefully. Nay, that seems to be rather a promise than a precept (
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
God will first convert and sanctify them, the fruit whereof shall be, that they shall return and obey God's commandments, ver. 8, and then shall prosper in all things, ver. 9. This promise principally respects the times of the gospel, and the grace which was to be then imparted to all Israel by Christ.
quarantine:anchor (2026-07-29) — cites-ver-9-anchored-6-6
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed,.... No mention is made of circumcision of the flesh, which will now be out of use with the Jews; they being fully convinced of the abrogation of the ceremonial law by the Messiah, whom they will now receive.
It is the heart and soul that God looks at and requires; he will have these or nothing, and these entire or not at all. [4.] It must be universal: According to all that I command thee,
The righteousness of faith set before them in the plainness and easiness of the commandment that was now given them,
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
They will be converted to the faith of Jesus Christ as their Messiah--a spiritual deliverer, and the effect of their conversion will be that they will return and obey the voice (the Gospel, the evangelical law) of the Lord.
The words behind it
18 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמָ֨ל | umal | and he will circumcise | H4135 → | |
| יְהוָ֧ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לְבָבְךָ֖ | levavekha | heart your | H3824 → | 252 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לְבַ֣ב | levav | [the] heart of | H3824 → | 252 times |
| זַרְעֶ֑ךָ | zarekha | offspring your | H2233 → | 229 times |
| לְאַהֲבָ֞ה | leahavah | to love | H157 → | 211 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְהוָ֧ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | with all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| לְבָבְךָ֥ | levavekha | heart your | H3824 → | 252 times |
| וּבְכָל־ | uvekhol- | and with all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| נַפְשְׁךָ֖ | nafshekha | being your | H5315 → | 754 times |
| לְמַ֥עַן | lemaan | for [the] sake of | H4616 → | 272 times |
| חַיֶּֽיךָ׃ | chaiyeikha | life your | H2416 → | 498 times |
וּמָ֨לand he will circumcise
umalH4135 →
יְהוָ֧הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
לְבָבְךָ֖heart your
levavekhaH3824 →252 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
לְבַ֣ב[the] heart of
levavH3824 →252 times
זַרְעֶ֑ךָoffspring your
zarekhaH2233 →229 times
לְאַהֲבָ֞הto love
leahavahH157 →211 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יְהוָ֧הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
בְּכָל־with all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
לְבָבְךָ֥heart your
levavekhaH3824 →252 times
וּבְכָל־and with all
uvekhol-H3605 →5413 times
נַפְשְׁךָ֖being your
nafshekhaH5315 →754 times
לְמַ֥עַןfor [the] sake of
lemaanH4616 →272 times
חַיֶּֽיךָ׃life your
chaiyeikhaH2416 →498 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 11:19–20
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Acts 4:32
The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
- John 17:21
that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- Ezekiel 37:25
They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their…
- Ezekiel 11:19–20
Through
Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to…
- Leviticus 26:41
and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
- Colossians 2:11
In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- Romans 2:28–29
A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
- Jeremiah 4:4
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.