Deuteronomy 18:10-22
10There shall not be found among you anyone awho burns his son or his daughter as an offering, ▼▼Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
anyone who cpractices divination or dtells fortunes or interprets omens, or ea sorcerer 11or a charmer or fa medium or a necromancer or gone who inquires of the dead, 12 hfor whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And ibecause of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this. A New Prophet like Moses
15 j“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— 16just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb kon the day of the assembly, when you said, l‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 17And the Lord said to me, m‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 nI will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. oAnd I will put my words in his mouth, and phe shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 qAnd whoever will rnot listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 sBut the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or ▼▼Or and
who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 uwhen 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; vthe prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
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