Deuteronomy 10:16

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Circumcise	וּמַלְתֶּ֕ם u.mal.Tem	H4135	to cut short · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
foreskin	עָרְלַ֣ת 'a.re.Lat	H6190	the prepuce · noun, common feminine singular construct
heart	לְבַבְכֶ֑ם le.vav.Khem	H3824	the heart (as the most interior organ) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
stiffnecked	וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔ם ve.'A.re.pe.Khem	H6203	the nape or back of the neck (as declining) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

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 com…
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…
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…
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 circumcisi…
Romans 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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 p…
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:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:12–end

Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee? Deu 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Psa 116:12), What shall I render? When we have received mercy from God it becomes us to enquire what returns we shall make to him. Consider what he requires, and you will find it is nothing but what is highly just and reasonable in itself and of unspeakable benefit and advantage to you. Let us see here what he does require, and what abundant reason there is why we shoul…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 10:16

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 (Rom 2:25, Rom 2:29), 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" [Pe1 3:21]. Next: Deuteronomy Chapter 11

John Gill on Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,.... Content not yourselves with, nor put your confidence in outward circumcision of the flesh, but be concerned for the circumcision of the heart; for removing from that whatever is disagreeable to the Lord, even all carnality, sensuality, hypocrisy, and superfluity of naughtiness, and for having that put there which is well pleasing in his sight; and which though it is the work of God, and he only can do it and has promised it, yet such an exhortation is made to bring men to a sense of their need of it, and of the importance of it, and to show how agreeable it is to the Lord, and so to stir them up to seek unto him for it; see Deuteronomy 30:…

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John Calvin on Deuteronomy 10:14-16

Dictionary and topics

Circumcision — Cutting around. This rite, practised before, as some think, by divers races, was appointed by God to be the special badge of his chosen people, an abiding sign of their consecration to him. It was…
Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Circumcision · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 10:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 10:16

John Gill on Deuteronomy 10:16

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 10:14-16

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 10:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:12–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 10:16

John Gill on Deuteronomy 10:16

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 10:14-16

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 10:16-17

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 10:16

Rashi on Deuteronomy 10:16