Deuteronomy 10:16

Easy-to-Read Version

"Stop being stubborn. Give your hearts to God.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

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

Lexham English Bible
So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn.

English Standard Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

New Century Version
Give yourselves completely to serving him, and do not be stubborn any longer.

New English Translation
Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

Amplified Bible
"So circumcise [that is, remove sin from] your heart, and be stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) no longer.

New American Standard Bible
"So circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck any longer.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neckes no more.

Legacy Standard Bible
So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.

Contemporary English Version
Remember your agreement with the Lord and stop being so stubborn.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart; and don't be stiffnecked any longer!

Darby Translation
Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

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

Good News Translation
So then, from now on be obedient to the Lord and stop being stubborn.

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don’t be stiff-necked any longer.

Literal Translation
And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and you shall not harden your neck any more.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Circumcyse therfore ye foreßkynne of yor hert, & be nomore styffnecked.

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

Bible in Basic English
Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Circumcise therefore the foreskinne of your heart, and be no more stifnecked.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

King James Version (1611)
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and bee no more stiffenecked.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor circumcide ye the prepucie, `ethir vnclennesse, of youre herte, and no more make ye harde youre nol.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

Update Bible Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and don't be stiff-necked anymore.

Webster's Bible Translation
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

World English Bible
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

New King James Version
Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.

New Living Translation
Therefore, change your hearts and stop being stubborn.

New Life Bible
So then, from now on, obey the Lord. Do not be strong-willed any more.

New Revised Standard
Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore must ye circumcise the foreskin of your hearts, - and your necks, must ye stiffen no more.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

Revised Standard Version
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.

Contextual Overview

¹² "Now, Israelites, listen! What does the Lord your God really want from you? The Lord your God wants you to respect him and do what he says. He wants you to love him and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹³ So obey the laws and commands of the Lord that I am giving you today. These laws and commands are for your own good. ¹⁴ "Everything belongs to the Lord your God. The heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to him. The earth and everything on it belong to him. ¹⁵ The Lord loved your ancestors very much. He loved them so much that he chose you, their descendants, to be his people. He chose you instead of any other nation, and you are still his chosen people today. ¹⁶ "Stop being stubborn. Give your hearts to God. ¹⁷ The Lord is your God. He is the God of gods and the Lord of lords. He is the great God. He is the amazing and powerful fighter. To him everyone is the same. He does not accept money to change his mind. ¹⁸ He defends widows and orphans. He loves even the strangers living among us. He gives them food and clothes. ¹⁹ So you must also love them, because you yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ "You must respect the Lord your God and worship only him. Never leave him. When you make promises, you must use his name only. ²¹ He is the one you should praise. He is your God. He has done great and amazing things for you. You have seen them with your own eyes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Circumcise: Deuteronomy 30:6, Leviticus 26:41, Jeremiah 4:4, Jeremiah 4:14, Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Colossians 2:11

stiffnecked: Deuteronomy 9:6, Deuteronomy 9:13, Deuteronomy 31:27, James 4:6, James 4:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:10 - Every Exodus 32:9 - a stiffnecked Joshua 5:2 - circumcise 2 Chronicles 30:8 - be ye not stiffnecked Isaiah 48:4 - obstinate Ezekiel 2:4 - they Ezekiel 44:7 - uncircumcised in heart John 3:10 - and knowest Acts 7:51 - uncircumcised Philippians 3:3 - we

Cross-References

Judges 1:21
The tribe of Benjamin could not force the Jebusites to leave Jerusalem. So even today, the Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 24:18
That day Gad came to David and said, "Go and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

Zechariah 9:7
They will no longer eat meat with the blood still in it or any other forbidden food. Any Philistine left alive will become a part of my people; they will be just one more tribe in Judah. The people of Ekron will become a part of my people, as the Jebusites did.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 30:6

and be no more stiffnecked; froward, obstinate, and disobedient, as they had been hitherto; Deuteronomy 9:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On “circumcision” see Genesis 17:10. This verse points to the spiritual import of circumcision. Man is by nature “very far gone from original righteousness,” and in a state of enmity to God; by circumcision, as the sacrament of admission to the privileges of the chosen people, this opposition must be taken away ere man could enter into covenant with God. It was through the flesh that man first sinned; as it is also in the flesh, its functions, lusts, etc., that man’s rebellion against God chiefly manifests itself still. It was fitting therefore that the symbol which should denote the removal of this estrangement from God should be worked in the body. Moses then fitly follows up the command “to circumcise the heart,” with the warning “to be no more stiff-necked.” His meaning is that they should lay aside that obduracy and perverseness toward God for which he had been reproving them, which had led them into so many transgressions of the covenant and revolts from God, and which was especially the very contrary of that love and fear of God required by the first two of the Ten Commandments. The language associated with circumcision in the Bible distinguishes the use made of this rite in the Jewish religion from that found among certain pagan nations. Circumcision was practiced by some of them as a religious rite, designed (e. g.) to appease the deity of death who was supposed to delight in human suffering; but not by any, the Egyptians probably excepted, at all in the Jewish sense and meaning.

The grounds on which circumcision was imposed as essential by the Law are the same as those on which Baptism is required in the Gospel. The latter in the New Testament is strictly analogous to the former under the Old; compare Colossians 2:11-12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 10:16. 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 fulfilment of the whole law.