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Deuteronomy 15-18
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Debts Canceled Every Seven Years(A)

15 “At the end of (B)every seven years you shall grant a [a]release of debts. 2 And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall [b]release it; he shall not [c]require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the Lord’s release. 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother, 4 except when there may be no poor among you; for the Lord will greatly (C)bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance— 5 only if you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you; (D)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

Generosity to the Poor

7 “If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the [d]gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, (E)you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, 8 but (F)you shall [e]open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs. 9 Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your (G)eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and (H)he cry out to the Lord against you, and (I)it become sin among you. 10 You shall surely give to him, and (J)your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because (K)for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand. 11 For (L)the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall [f]open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

The Law Concerning Bondservants

12 (M)“If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is (N)sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And when you [g]send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed; 14 you shall supply him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress. From what the Lord your God has (O)blessed you with, you shall give to him. 15 (P)You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today. 16 And (Q)if it happens that he says to you, ‘I will not go away from you,’ because he loves you and your house, since he prospers with you, 17 then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth (R)a double hired servant in serving you six years. Then the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

The Law Concerning Firstborn Animals

19 (S)“All the firstborn males that come from your herd and your flock you shall [h]sanctify to the Lord your God; you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 (T)You and your household shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place which the Lord chooses. 21 (U)But if there is a defect in it, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. 22 You may eat it within your gates; (V)the unclean and the clean person alike may eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a deer. 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

The Passover Reviewed(W)

16 “Observe the (X)month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for (Y)in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and (Z)the herd, in the (AA)place where the Lord chooses to put His name. 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; (AB)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may (AC)remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 (AD)And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until (AE)morning.

5 “You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; 6 but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover (AF)at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall roast and eat it (AG)in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and (AH)on the seventh day there shall be a [i]sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks Reviewed(AI)

9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain. 10 Then you shall keep the (AJ)Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give (AK)as the Lord your God blesses you. 11 (AL)You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. 12 (AM)And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Tabernacles Reviewed(AN)

13 (AO)“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. 14 And (AP)you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your [j]gates. 15 (AQ)Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

16 (AR)“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and (AS)they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. 17 Every man shall give as he is able, (AT)according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

Justice Must Be Administered

18 “You shall appoint (AU)judges and officers in all your [k]gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 (AV)You shall not pervert justice; (AW)you shall not [l]show partiality, (AX)nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and [m]twists the words of the righteous. 20 You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may (AY)live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

21 (AZ)“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a [n]wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord your God. 22 (BA)You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

Various Instructions

17 “You (BB)shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God a bull or sheep which has any [o]blemish or defect, for that is an [p]abomination to the Lord your God.

2 (BC)“If there is found among you, within any of your [q]gates which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the Lord your God, (BD)in transgressing His covenant, 3 who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either (BE)the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, (BF)which I have not commanded, 4 (BG)and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an [r]abomination has been committed in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and (BH)shall stone (BI)to death that man or woman with stones. 6 Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three (BJ)witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among (BK)you.

8 (BL)“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the (BM)place which the Lord your God chooses. 9 And (BN)you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and (BO)to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; (BP)they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. 10 You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the Lord chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you. 11 According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you. 12 Now (BQ)the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. 13 (BR)And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.

Principles Governing Kings

14 “When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, (BS)‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you (BT)whom the Lord your God chooses; one (BU)from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he shall not multiply (BV)horses for himself, nor cause the people (BW)to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for (BX)the Lord has said to you, (BY)‘You shall not return that way again.’ 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and (BZ)gold for himself.

18 “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one (CA)before the priests, the Levites. 19 And (CB)it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not [s]be lifted above his brethren, that he (CC)may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may [t]prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.

The Portion of the Priests and Levites

18 “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have [u]no part nor (CD)inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.

3 “And this shall be the priest’s (CE)due[v] from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. 4 (CF)The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5 For (CG)the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes (CH)to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons forever.

6 “So if a Levite comes from any of your [w]gates, from where he (CI)dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind (CJ)to the place which the Lord chooses, 7 then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God (CK)as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord. 8 They shall have equal (CL)portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

Avoid Wicked Customs

9 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, (CM)you shall not learn to follow the [x]abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter (CN)pass[y] through the fire, (CO)or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 (CP)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or (CQ)one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are [z]an abomination to the Lord, and (CR)because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be [aa]blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not [ab]appointed such for you.

A New Prophet Like Moses

15 (CS)“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16 according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb (CT)in the day of the assembly, saying, (CU)‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

17 “And the Lord said to me: (CV)‘What they have spoken is good. 18 (CW)I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and (CX)will put My words in His mouth, (CY)and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 (CZ)And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. 20 But (DA)the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or (DB)who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 (DC)when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, (DD)if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it (DE)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:1 remission
  2. Deuteronomy 15:2 cancel the debt
  3. Deuteronomy 15:2 exact it
  4. Deuteronomy 15:7 towns
  5. Deuteronomy 15:8 freely open
  6. Deuteronomy 15:11 freely open
  7. Deuteronomy 15:13 set him free
  8. Deuteronomy 15:19 set apart or consecrate
  9. Deuteronomy 16:8 Lit. restraint
  10. Deuteronomy 16:14 towns
  11. Deuteronomy 16:18 towns
  12. Deuteronomy 16:19 Lit. regard faces
  13. Deuteronomy 16:19 perverts
  14. Deuteronomy 16:21 Or Asherah
  15. Deuteronomy 17:1 Lit. evil thing
  16. Deuteronomy 17:1 detestable thing
  17. Deuteronomy 17:2 towns
  18. Deuteronomy 17:4 detestable thing
  19. Deuteronomy 17:20 become proud
  20. Deuteronomy 17:20 continue long in his kingdom
  21. Deuteronomy 18:1 no portion
  22. Deuteronomy 18:3 right
  23. Deuteronomy 18:6 towns
  24. Deuteronomy 18:9 detestable acts
  25. Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol
  26. Deuteronomy 18:12 detestable
  27. Deuteronomy 18:13 Lit. perfect
  28. Deuteronomy 18:14 allowed you to do so
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Deuteronomy 15-18
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The Year for Canceling Debts(A)

15 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.(B) 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. 3 You may require payment from a foreigner,(C) but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. 4 However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless(D) you, 5 if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow(E) all these commands I am giving you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.(F)

7 If anyone is poor(G) among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted(H) toward them. 8 Rather, be openhanded(I) and freely lend them whatever they need. 9 Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts,(J) is near,” so that you do not show ill will(K) toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.(L) 10 Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart;(M) then because of this the Lord your God will bless(N) you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. 11 There will always be poor people(O) in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.(P)

Freeing Servants(Q)(R)

12 If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.(S) 13 And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed. 14 Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor(T) and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you. 15 Remember that you were slaves(U) in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you.(V) That is why I give you this command today.

16 But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you, 17 then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.

18 Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

The Firstborn Animals

19 Set apart for the Lord(W) your God every firstborn male(X) of your herds and flocks.(Y) Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.(Z) 20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.(AA) 21 If an animal has a defect,(AB) is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.(AC) 22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.(AD) 23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.(AE)

The Passover(AF)

16 Observe the month of Aviv(AG) and celebrate the Passover(AH) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.(AI) 3 Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,(AJ) because you left Egypt in haste(AK)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.(AL) 4 Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening(AM) of the first day remain until morning.(AN)

5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you 6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[a](AO) of your departure from Egypt. 7 Roast(AP) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. 8 For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly(AQ) to the Lord your God and do no work.(AR)

The Festival of Weeks(AS)

9 Count off seven weeks(AT) from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.(AU) 10 Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. 11 And rejoice(AV) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name(AW)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites(AX) in your towns, and the foreigners,(AY) the fatherless and the widows living among you.(AZ) 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt,(BA) and follow carefully these decrees.

The Festival of Tabernacles(BB)

13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor(BC) and your winepress.(BD) 14 Be joyful(BE) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy(BF) will be complete.

16 Three times a year all your men must appear(BG) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,(BH) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.(BI) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:(BJ) 17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

Judges

18 Appoint judges(BK) and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.(BL) 19 Do not pervert justice(BM) or show partiality.(BN) Do not accept a bribe,(BO) for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. 20 Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Worshiping Other Gods

21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole(BP) beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,(BQ) 22 and do not erect a sacred stone,(BR) for these the Lord your God hates.

17 Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect(BS) or flaw in it, for that would be detestable(BT) to him.(BU)

2 If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God in violation of his covenant,(BV) 3 and contrary to my command(BW) has worshiped other gods,(BX) bowing down to them or to the sun(BY) or the moon or the stars in the sky,(BZ) 4 and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true(CA) and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,(CB) 5 take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.(CC) 6 On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.(CD) 7 The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death,(CE) and then the hands of all the people.(CF) You must purge the evil(CG) from among you.

Law Courts

8 If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge(CH)—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults(CI)—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.(CJ) 9 Go to the Levitical(CK) priests and to the judge(CL) who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.(CM) 10 You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do. 11 Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.(CN) 12 Anyone who shows contempt(CO) for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering(CP) there to the Lord your God is to be put to death.(CQ) You must purge the evil from Israel.(CR) 13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.(CS)

The King

14 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession(CT) of it and settled in it,(CU) and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”(CV) 15 be sure to appoint(CW) over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites.(CX) Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite. 16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses(CY) for himself(CZ) or make the people return to Egypt(DA) to get more of them,(DB) for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”(DC) 17 He must not take many wives,(DD) or his heart will be led astray.(DE) He must not accumulate(DF) large amounts of silver and gold.(DG)

18 When he takes the throne(DH) of his kingdom, he is to write(DI) for himself on a scroll a copy(DJ) of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. 19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life(DK) so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees(DL) 20 and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law(DM) to the right or to the left.(DN) Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.(DO)

Offerings for Priests and Levites

18 The Levitical(DP) priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings(DQ) presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance.(DR) 2 They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance,(DS) as he promised them.(DT)

3 This is the share due the priests(DU) from the people who sacrifice a bull(DV) or a sheep: the shoulder, the internal organs and the meat from the head.(DW) 4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,(DX) 5 for the Lord your God has chosen them(DY) and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister(DZ) in the Lord’s name always.(EA)

6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose,(EB) 7 he may minister in the name(EC) of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the Lord. 8 He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.(ED)

Occult Practices

9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate(EE) the detestable ways(EF) of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire,(EG) who practices divination(EH) or sorcery,(EI) interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,(EJ) 11 or casts spells,(EK) or who is a medium or spiritist(EL) or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.(EM) 13 You must be blameless(EN) before the Lord your God.(EO)

The Prophet

14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination.(EP) But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so. 15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites.(EQ) You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”(ER)

17 The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet(ES) like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words(ET) in his mouth.(EU) He will tell them everything I command him.(EV) 19 I myself will call to account(EW) anyone who does not listen(EX) to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.(EY) 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,(EZ) is to be put to death.”(FA)

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,(FB) that is a message the Lord has not spoken.(FC) That prophet has spoken presumptuously,(FD) so do not be alarmed.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:6 Or down, at the time of day
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