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13 I have seen now how stiff-necked this people is, the Lord said to me.

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16 Circumcise therefore the foreskins of your hearts,[a] and be stiff-necked no longer.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskins of your hearts: cf. 30:6; Jer 4:4; Rom 2:29. The “uncircumcised heart” (Lv 26:41; Jer 9:25; Ez 44:7, 9) is closed and unreceptive to God, just as “uncircumcised ears” (Jer 6:10) are closed to the word of the Lord, and “uncircumcised lips” (Ex 6:12, 30) are a hindrance to speaking on behalf of the Lord.

27 For I already know how rebellious and stiff-necked you will be. Why, even now, while I am alive among you, you have been rebels against the Lord! How much more, then, after I am dead!(A)

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(A)I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are, continued the Lord to Moses.

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to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way.

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Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.”

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Because I know that you are stubborn
    and that your neck is an iron sinew
    and your forehead bronze,

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23 though they did not listen or give ear, but stiffened their necks so they could not hear or take correction.(A)

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15 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I will bring upon this city all the evil I have spoken against it, because they have become stubborn and have not obeyed my words.(A)

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