Deuteronomy 18:15-20
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A New Prophet Like Moses
15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.[a](A) 16 This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’(B) 17 Then the Lord replied to me, ‘They are right in what they have said.(C) 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet,[b] who shall speak to them everything that I command.(D) 19 Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet[c] shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.(E) 20 But any prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’(F)
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Deuteronomy 18:15-20
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15 (A) Instead, he will choose one of your own people to be a prophet just like me, and you must do what that prophet says. 16 You were asking for a prophet the day you were gathered at Mount Sinai[a] and said to the Lord, “Please don't let us hear your voice or see this terrible fire again—if we do, we will die!”
17 Then the Lord told me:
Moses, they have said the right thing. 18 So when I want to speak to them, I will choose one of them to be a prophet like you. I will give my message to that prophet, who will tell the people exactly what I have said. 19 (B) Since the message comes from me, anyone who doesn't obey the message will have to answer to me.
20 But if I haven't spoken, and a prophet claims to have a message from me, you must kill that prophet, and you must also kill any prophet who claims to have a message from another god.
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- 18.16 Mount Sinai: See the note at 1.1-5.
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