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Deuteronomy 30:6
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses Israel in the plains of Moab, within a passage (Deut 30) that moves from exile to restoration; this verse sits between the promise of return to the land (v. 5) and the promise that curses will be turned on their enemies (v. 7).
The words — מָל (māl, "to circumcise") is the verb, applied here not to flesh but to לֵבָב (lēḇāḇ, "heart"); the subject performing the act is Yahweh, not the people.
The thread — Deuteronomy 10:16 commands the same act in the imperative ("circumcise your hearts"); Ezekiel 36:26 and Jeremiah 32:39 describe it as the removal of a stone heart and the gift of one heart and one way.
Why it lands — The verse assigns the production of wholehearted love to God, not to human effort; the reader is asked to stop treating obedience as a self-generated achievement and receive it as what God does.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
- Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Jeremiah 32:39 I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Romans 2:28 A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
- Colossians 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
- Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!