Deuteronomy 18:14–22
18:14 For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practise sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.
18:15 The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from amongst you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
18:16 This is according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the LORD my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
18:17 The LORD said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from amongst their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
18:19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
18:20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”
18:21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”
18:22 When a prophet speaks in the LORD’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
