Deuteronomy 18:16-22

16 [This is] {according to all that you asked} from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, {saying}, '{I do not want again to hear} 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} like you, and I will place my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them {everything that I command him}.
19 {And then} the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable.
20 However, the prophet that behaves presumptuously by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet shall die.'
21 And if you say {to yourself}, 'How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?'
22 [Whenever] what the prophet spoke in the name of Yahweh, the thing does not take place and [does] not come [about], that [is] the thing that Yahweh has not spoken to him. Presumptuously the prophet spoke it; you shall not fear that prophet."

Footnotes 10

  • [a]. Literally "[just] as all [of] that you asked"
  • [b]. Literally "to say"
  • [c]. Literally "not I want to do again to hear"
  • [d]. Literally "from the midst of their brothers"
  • [e]. Or "give"
  • [f]. Literally "all [of] what I command him"
  • [g]. Literally "And it will happen"
  • [h]. Literally "in your heart"
  • [i]. Or "that Yahweh has not spoken it"
  • [j]. Hebrew "the"
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