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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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Footnotes

  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”

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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