Deuteronomy 10:16
What does Deuteronomy 10:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 10:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
Context
v.15Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
v.16This passage
v.17For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 30:6
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.
- Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
- Deuteronomy 31:27
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?
- Deuteronomy 9:13
Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Colossians 2:11
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;
- Leviticus 26:41
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;
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