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Discerning the True Prophet

15 “The Lord your God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your relatives. You must listen to him, 16 because this is what you asked from the Lord your God at Horeb when you were assembled together: ‘Don’t let us[a] hear the voice of the Lord our God again, or even see this great fire—otherwise, we[b] will die.’

17 “Then the Lord told me: ‘What they have suggested is good. 18 I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them. 19 But if someone will not listen to those words that the prophet[c] speaks in my name, I will hold him accountable.

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  1. Deuteronomy 18:16 Lit. me
  2. Deuteronomy 18:16 Lit. I
  3. Deuteronomy 18:19 Lit. he

15 “Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your countrymen,[a] and to him you shall listen. 16 This is according to all that you asked[b] from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, saying,[c]I do not want again to hear[d] the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!’ 17 And Yahweh said to me, ‘They are right in what they have said. 18 I will raise up a prophet for them from among their countrymen[e] like you, and I will place[f] my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them everything that I command him.[g] 19 And then[h] the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable.

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  1. Deuteronomy 18:15 Or “your brothers”
  2. Deuteronomy 18:16 Literally “just as all of that you asked”
  3. Deuteronomy 18:16 Literally “to say”
  4. Deuteronomy 18:16 Literally “not I want to do again to hear”
  5. Deuteronomy 18:18 Literally “from the midst of their brothers”
  6. Deuteronomy 18:18 Or “give”
  7. Deuteronomy 18:18 Literally “all of what I command him”
  8. Deuteronomy 18:19 Literally “And it will happen”