Deuteronomy 13:1-5

New King James Version

Punishment of Apostates

13 “If there arises among you a prophet or a ^(A)dreamer of dreams, ^(B)and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ²and ^(C)the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ ³you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God ^(D)is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴You shall ^(E)walk^[a] after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and ^(F)hold fast to Him. ⁵But ^(G)that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^(H)So you shall ^[b]put away the evil from your midst.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 13:4 follow the Lord
Deuteronomy 13:5 exterminate

Deuteronomy 18:15-22

New King James Version

A New Prophet Like Moses

¹⁵^(A)“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, ¹⁶according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb ^(B)in the day of the assembly, saying, ^(C)‘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: ^(D)‘What they have spoken is good. ¹⁸^(E)I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and ^(F)will put My words in His mouth, ^(G)and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. ¹⁹^(H)And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. ²⁰But ^(I)the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(J)who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ ²¹And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— ²²^(K)when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, ^(L)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 ^(M)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.