Deuteronomy 10:16 BSB

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart--Here he teaches them the true and spiritual meaning of that rite, as was afterwards more strongly urged by Paul (Ro 2:25, 29), and should be applied by us to our baptism, which is "not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God" [1Pe 3:21].

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמַלְתֶּ֕ם	u.mal.Tem	and you will circumcise	H4135 →
אֵ֖ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
עָרְלַ֣ת	'a.re.Lat	[the] foreskin of	H6190 →
לְבַבְכֶ֑ם	le.vav.Khem	heart your	H3824 →
וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔ם	ve.'A.re.pe.Khem	and neck your	H6203 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תַקְשׁ֖וּ	tak.Shu	you will make stiff	H7185 →
עֽוֹד׃	od	again	H5750 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Deuteronomy 30:6
The 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.
leads to
- Ezekiel 36:26–27
  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Jeremiah 32:39
  I 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.
- 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,
Through
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…
leads to
- 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 30:6
  The 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 2:28–29
  A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
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.
leads to
- Romans 2:29
  No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come…
- Philippians 3:3
  For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

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