Deuteronomy 10:16

The NET Bible®

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"Stop being stubborn. Give your hearts to God.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

New King James Version
Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neckes 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

Contextual Overview

¹² Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being, ¹³ and to keep the Lord's commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good? ¹⁴ The heavens—indeed the highest heavens—belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it. ¹⁵ However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples—as is apparent today. ¹⁶ Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn! ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe, ¹⁸ who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing. ¹⁹ So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ Revere the Lord your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name. ²¹ He is the one you should praise; he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.

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 men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day.

2 Samuel 24:18
So Gad went to David that day and told him, "Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

Zechariah 9:7
I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

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.