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15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers--it is to him you shall listen--
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The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
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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.”
17 And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken.
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The LORD said to me: “What they say is good.
18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
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I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.
19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
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I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.
20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.'
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But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21 And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'--
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You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?”
22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
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If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
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