⁶ The Lord your God will circumcise your heart^(A) and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.^(B)

²⁵ “‘Look, the days are coming—this is the Lord’s declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised:^(A)

⁷ When you brought in foreigners,^(A) uncircumcised in both heart and flesh,^(B) to occupy my sanctuary, you defiled my temple while you offered my food—the fat and the blood. You^[a] broke my covenant by all your detestable practices.

⁹ “This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.