📜WEB · Deuteronomy 10:16
What does Deuteronomy 10:16 mean?
"Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked."
— Deuteronomy 10:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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