18 (A)I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. (B)And I will put my words in his mouth, and (C)he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 (D)And whoever will (E)not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 (F)But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or[a] who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 (G)when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; (H)the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:20 Or and

18 I will raise up for them a prophet(A) like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words(B) in his mouth.(C) He will tell them everything I command him.(D) 19 I myself will call to account(E) anyone who does not listen(F) to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.(G) 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods,(H) is to be put to death.”(I)

21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true,(J) that is a message the Lord has not spoken.(K) That prophet has spoken presumptuously,(L) so do not be alarmed.

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