17 And the Lord said to me, (A)‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 (B)I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. (C)And I will put my words in his mouth, and (D)he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 (E)And whoever will (F)not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 (G)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 (H)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; (I)the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:20 Or and

13 “If a prophet or (A)a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and (B)the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God (C)is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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