Understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don’t be stiff-necked any longer.

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!

you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.

and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a [river] valley with running water, which has not been plowed or planted, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

All the elders of that city nearest to the dead man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;