King James Version
Deuteronomy 10:16 in the King James Version says “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked .” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked .”
Deuteronomy 10:16 · KJV
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked .
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
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“Circumcise”
H4135to cut short, i.e., curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e., to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and be no more stiffnecked”
H6203the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
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