Deuteronomy 10:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמַלְתֶּ֕ם אֵ֖ת עָרְלַ֣ת לְבַבְכֶ֑ם וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔ם לֹ֥א תַקְשׁ֖וּ עֽוֹד׃

Transliteration

And ûmaltem ʾēt ʿārlat ləbabkem and wəʿārpəkem not taqšû anymore

Grammar Details

*ûmaltem*: qal perfect 2nd masculine plural with waw - and you shall circumcise
*ʾēt*: direct object marker
*ʿārlat*: feminine singular construct - foreskin of
*ləbabkem*: masculine singular with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your heart
*wəʿārpəkem*: masculine singular with 2nd masculine plural suffix and waw - and your neck
*taqšû*: hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine plural with negation - you shall not harden/stiffen

Word Meanings

*mûl*: circumcise/cut/remove
*ʿārlâ*: foreskin/uncircumcision
*lēbāb*: heart/mind/inner self
*ʿōrep*: neck/back of neck
*qāšâ*: be hard/stubborn/stiff-necked

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Referenced Verses

Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Deut 30:6 : 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Lev 26:41 : 41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;
Deut 9:6 : 6 Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one {G1722} outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 but he is a Jew who is one {G1722} inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Col 2:11 : 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Jas 4:6-7 : 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Deut 9:13 : 13 Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Deut 31:27 : 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death?

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Deut 30:6
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6And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
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7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
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Exod 32:9
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