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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 you, from your fellow Israelites.(A) You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”(B)

17 The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet(C) like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words(D) in his mouth.(E) He will tell them everything I command him.(F) 19 I myself will call to account(G) anyone who does not listen(H) to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.(I)

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