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Circumcise Your Heart

12 (A)So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to [a]fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways and (B)love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with (C)all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? 14 Behold, (D)to Yahweh your God belong heaven and the [b]highest heavens, (E)the earth and all that is in it. 15 (F)Yet on your fathers did Yahweh set His affection to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day. 16 (G)So circumcise [c]your heart, and (H)stiffen your neck no longer. 17 (I)For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the (J)Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God (K)who does not show partiality nor (L)take a bribe. 18 He executes justice for (M)the orphan and the widow, and shows love for the sojourner by giving him food and clothing. 19 (N)So show love for the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20 Yahweh your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall (O)cling, and by His name (P)you shall swear. 21 He is (Q)your praise, and He is your God, who has done these great and fearsome things for you which your eyes have seen. 22 (R)Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, (S)and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 10:12 Or reverence
  2. Deuteronomy 10:14 Lit heaven of heavens
  3. Deuteronomy 10:16 Lit the foreskin of your heart

12 And now, Israel, what is Yahweh your God asking[a] from you, except[b] to revere Yahweh your God, to go[c] in all his ways and to love him and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,[d] 13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes that I am commanding you today for your own good.[e] 14 Look! For to Yahweh your God belong[f] heaven and the highest heavens,[g] the earth and all that is in it. 15 Yet[h] to your ancestors[i] Yahweh was very attached, so as to love them, and so he chose their offspring after them, namely you, from all the peoples, as it is today.[j] 16 So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn.[k] 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of the gods and Lord of the lords, the great and mighty God, the awesome one who is not partial,[l] and he does not take bribes. 18 And he executes justice for the orphan and widow, and he is one who loves the alien, to give to them food and clothing. 19 And you shall love the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. 20 Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear. 21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done with you these great and awesome things that your eyes have seen. 22 With only seventy persons your ancestors[m] went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven with respect to multitude.[n]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 10:12 Or “requiring”
  2. Deuteronomy 10:12 Or “but only”
  3. Deuteronomy 10:12 Or “to walk”
  4. Deuteronomy 10:12 Or “inner self”
  5. Deuteronomy 10:13 Literally “for good to you”
  6. Deuteronomy 10:14 Literally “is”
  7. Deuteronomy 10:14 Literally “heavens of the heavens”
  8. Deuteronomy 10:15 Literally “Only”
  9. Deuteronomy 10:15 Or “fathers”
  10. Deuteronomy 10:15 Literally “the day the this”
  11. Deuteronomy 10:16 Literally “your neck you shall not make stiff any longer”
  12. Deuteronomy 10:17 Literally “does not lift up faces”
  13. Deuteronomy 10:22 Or “fathers”
  14. Deuteronomy 10:22 Literally “as far as number”