Deuteronomy 10:16

Contemporary English Version

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

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.

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.

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

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 Moses said: People of Israel, what does the Lord your God want from you? The Lord wants you to respect and follow him, to love and serve him with all your heart and soul, ¹³ and to obey his laws and teachings that I am giving you today. Do this, and all will go well for you. ¹⁴ Everything belongs to the Lord your God, not only the earth and everything on it, but also the sky and the highest heavens. ¹⁵ Yet the Lord loved your ancestors and wanted them to belong to him. So he chose them and their descendants rather than any other nation, and today you are still his people. ¹⁶ Remember your agreement with the Lord and stop being so stubborn. ¹⁷ The Lord your God is more powerful than all other gods and lords, and his tremendous power is to be feared. His decisions are always fair, and you cannot bribe him to change his mind. ¹⁸ The Lord defends the rights of orphans and widows. He cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing. ¹⁹ And you should also care for them, because you were foreigners in Egypt. ²⁰ Respect the Lord your God, serve only him, and make promises in his name alone. ²¹ Offer your praises to him, because you have seen him work such terrifying miracles for you.

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 Jebusites were living in Jerusalem, and the Benjamin tribe did not defeat them or capture the town. That's why Jebusites still live in Jerusalem along with the people of Benjamin.

2 Samuel 24:18
That same day the prophet Gad came and told David, "Go to the threshing place that belongs to Araunah and build an altar there for the Lord ." So David went.

Zechariah 9:7
No longer will the Philistines eat meat with blood in it or any unclean food. They will become part of the people of our God from the tribe of Judah. And God will accept the people of Ekron, as he did 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.