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**Circumcise thine heart -**Compare [Deuteronomy 10:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/16) note; [Jeremiah 32:39](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/39); Ezra 11:19.

**That thou mayest love the Lord -**Compare [Deuteronomy 6:5](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/5). Love stands first as the essential and only source of obedience.
**He is thy life -**Or, “that” (i. e., “to love the Lord”) “is thy life;” i. e., the condition of thy life and of its prolongation in the promised land. Compare [Deuteronomy 4:40](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/40); [Deuteronomy 32:47](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/47).

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