Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Circumcise Your Heart

12 "And now, Israel, ¹what does the LORD your God require of you, but ²to fear the LORD your God, ³to walk in all his ways, ⁴to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

13 and ⁵to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today ⁶for your good?

14 Behold, ⁷to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, ⁸the earth with all that is in it.

15 Yet ⁹the 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 ¹⁰the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer ¹¹stubborn.

17 For the LORD your God is ¹²God of gods and ¹³Lord of lords, ¹⁴the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is ¹⁵not partial and takes no bribe.

18 ¹⁶He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

19 ¹⁷Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

20 ¹⁸You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and ¹⁹hold fast to him, and ²⁰by his name you shall swear.

21 ²¹He is your praise. He is your God, ²²who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.

22 Your fathers went down to Egypt ²³seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you ²⁴as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 10:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 10

In this chapter an account is given of an order to Moses to hew two tables of stone, on which the Lord would write the words that were on the first, and to make an ark and put them into it, all which was accordingly done, De 10:1-5 and of some of the journeys of the children of Israel, De 10:6,7 and of the separation of the tribe of Levi to the service of the sanctuary, De 10:8,9 and of Moses's stay in the mount forty days and nights, and his success there, and the direction he had to lead on the people of Israel towards Canaan's land, De 10:10,11 and who by various arguments are exhorted to fear the Lord, and serve him, and keep his commands, De 10:12-22.

Cross References

• 1. [Micah 6:8]
• 2. See Deuteronomy 6:2, 13
• 3. See Deuteronomy 5:33
• 4. See Deuteronomy 6:5
• 5. Deuteronomy 7:11
• 6. Deuteronomy 6:24
• 7. 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 115:16; Isaiah 66:1
• 8. Exodus 19:5; Psalms 24:1
• 9. Deuteronomy 4:37; [Deuteronomy 7:7]
• 10. Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 4:4; [Acts 7:51]
• 11. See Deuteronomy 9:6
• 12. Joshua 22:22; Psalms 136:2; Daniel 2:47; Daniel 11:36
• 13. Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16
• 14. Nehemiah 9:32; See Deuteronomy 7:21
• 15. 2 Chronicles 19:7; Job 34:19; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; Galatians 2:6; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 3:25; 1 Peter 1:17
• 16. Psalms 68:5; Psalms 146:9; [Deuteronomy 24:17; Exodus 22:22]
• 17. Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:33, 34
• 18. [See ver. 12 above]
• 19. Deuteronomy 11:22; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 30:20
• 20. See Deuteronomy 6:13
• 21. Psalms 22:3; Psalms 109:1; Jeremiah 17:14
• 22. 2 Samuel 7:23; Psalms 106:21, 22
• 23. Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5; [Acts 7:14]
• 24. Deuteronomy 28:62; Nehemiah 9:23; See Genesis 15:5