15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers.(A) You must listen to him. 16 This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’ (B) 17 Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. 19 I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name.(C)

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15 (A)The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen. 16 This is (B)in accordance with everything that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Do not let me hear the voice of the Lord my God again, and do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die!’ 17 And (C)the Lord said to me, ‘They have [a]spoken well. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and (D)I will put My words in his mouth, and (E)he shall speak to them everything that I command him. 19 (F)And it shall come about that whoever does not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will [b]require it of him.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:17 Lit done well what they have spoken
  2. Deuteronomy 18:19 I.e., hold him responsible