Deuteronomy 10:12-11:9

English Standard Version

Circumcise Your Heart

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(A)what does the Lord your God require of you, but ^(B)to fear the Lord your God, ^(C)to walk in all his ways, ^(D)to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and ^(E)to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today ^(F)for your good? ¹⁴ Behold, ^(G)to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, ^(H)the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵ Yet ^(I)the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. ¹⁶ Circumcise therefore ^(J)the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer ^(K)stubborn. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is ^(L)God of gods and ^(M)Lord of lords, ^(N)the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is ^(O)not partial and takes no bribe. ^18 (P)He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. ^19 (Q)Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ^20 (R)You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and ^(S)hold fast to him, and ^(T)by his name you shall swear. ^21 (U)He is your praise. He is your God, ^(V)who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. ²² Your fathers went down to Egypt ^(W)seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you ^(X)as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Love and Serve the Lord

11 ^(Y)“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and ^(Z)keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. ² And consider today (since I am not speaking to ^(AA)your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline^[a] of the Lord your God, ^(AB)his greatness, ^(AC)his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, ^3 (AD)his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, ⁴ and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, ^(AE)how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day, ⁵ and ^(AF)what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, ⁶ and ^(AG)what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. ⁷ For your eyes have seen ^(AH)all the great work of the Lord that he did.

⁸ “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may ^(AI)be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, ⁹ and ^(AJ)that you may live long in the land ^(AK)that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, ^(AL)a land flowing with milk and honey.