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Deuteronomy 18:17

Verse 17 of 22. The 18th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.

13You shall be blameless with the LORD your God.

14For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.

15The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

16This 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.”

17The LORD said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.

18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

19It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

20But 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.”

21You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.