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So circumciseוּמַלְתֶּםthe foreskinאֵת עָרְלַתof your heart,לְבַבְכֶםand do notוְ לֹאbe stubbornעָרְפְּכֶם תַקְשׁוּany longer.עוֹד
Deuteronomy 10:16
Study it in the app“So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 10:16, word by word
- So circumciseמַלְתֶּםmaltem
circumcise
To circumcise, also the heart.
Where else “maltem” appears- the foreskinעָרְלַתarlat
closed
What is closed, not given to God.
Where else “arlat” appears- of your heartלְבַבְlevav
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appears- be stubbornעָרְפְּarp
stubbornness
Unbending: "hard-necked".
Where else “arp” appears- be stubbornתַקְשׁוּtakshu
harden
To make the heart unyielding.
Where else “takshu” appears
Translation note
“Do not be stubborn any longer” is, word for word, “do not harden your neck any longer” (9:6). Paul speaks of the circumcision of the heart in Romans 2:29.
The context
15Yet on your fathers YHWH set his affection to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.
16 · This verse (above)
17For YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and fearsome El, who does not show favoritism and does not take a bribe.