13 “If a prophet or ^(A)a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, ² 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’, ³ 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. ⁴ You shall ^(D)walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and ^(E)hold fast to him. ⁵ But ^(F)that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^(G)So you shall purge the evil^[a] from your midst.

^20 (A)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 (B)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; ^(C)the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

³¹ He also made ^(A)temples on high places and ^(B)appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.

³⁴ But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, ^(A)their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—^(B)for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.

^15 (A)And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. ^(B)And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, ^(C)so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.