¹⁴ For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to ^(A)soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

¹⁵ “^(B)The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen. ¹⁶ This is ^(C)in accordance with everything that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Do not let me hear the voice of the Lord my God again, and do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die!’ ¹⁷ And ^(D)the Lord said to me, ‘They have ^[a]spoken well. ¹⁸ I will raise up for them a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and ^(E)I will put My words in his mouth, and ^(F)he shall speak to them everything that I command him. ^19 (G)And it shall come about that whoever does not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will ^[b]require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet who speaks a word ^(H)presumptuously in My name, a word which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(I)which he speaks in the name of other gods, ^[c]that prophet shall die.’ ²¹ And if you say in your heart, ‘How will we recognize the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ ^22 (J)When the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the thing does not happen or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it ^(K)presumptuously; you are not to be afraid of him.

The Scroll with Seven Seals

5 I saw ^[a]in the right hand of Him who ^(A)sat on the throne a ^[b](B)scroll written inside and on the back, ^(C)sealed up with seven seals. ² And I saw a ^(D)strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?” ³ And no one ^(E)in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. ⁴ Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. ⁵ And one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the ^(F)Lion that is ^(G)from the tribe of Judah, the ^(H)Root of David, has overcome so as to be able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

⁶ And I saw ^[c]between the throne (with the four living creatures) and ^(I)the elders a ^(J)Lamb standing, as if ^(K)slaughtered, having seven ^(L)horns and ^(M)seven eyes, which are ^[d](N)the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ⁷ And He came and took ^(O)the scroll out of the right hand of Him who ^(P)sat on the throne. ⁸ When He had taken the scroll, the ^(Q)four living creatures and the ^(R)twenty-four elders ^(S)fell down before the ^(T)Lamb, each one holding a ^(U)harp and ^(V)golden bowls full of incense, which are the ^(W)prayers of the ^[e]saints. ⁹ And they *sang a ^(X)new song, saying,

Angels Exalt the Lamb

¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels ^(AF)around the throne and the ^(AG)living creatures and the ^(AH)elders; and the number of them was ^[f](AI)myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a loud voice,

¹³ And I heard ^(AM)every created thing which is in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, or on the sea, and all the things in them, saying,

¹⁴ And the ^(AQ)four living creatures were saying, “^(AR)Amen.” And the ^(AS)elders ^(AT)fell down and worshiped.