Deuteronomy 18:10-22

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone ^(A)who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one ^(B)who practices soothsaying or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or one who is an enchanter ^(C)or a medium or a spiritist or one who inquires of the dead. ¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; and ^(D)because of these abominations Yahweh your God will dispossess them from before you. ^13 (E)You shall be ^[a]blameless before Yahweh your God. ¹⁴ For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who ^(F)practice soothsaying and to diviners, but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.

Yahweh Will Raise Up a Prophet

¹⁵ “^(G)Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; you shall listen to him. ¹⁶ This is ^(H)according to all that you asked of Yahweh your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God; let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’ ^17 (I)And Yahweh said to me, ‘They have ^[b]spoken well. ¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers like you, and ^(J)I will put My words in his mouth, and ^(K)he shall speak to them all that I command him. ^19 (L)And it will be that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet who speaks a word ^(M)presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(N)which he speaks in the name of other gods, ^[c]that prophet shall die.’ ²¹ Now ^[d]you may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?’ ^22 (O)When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it ^(P)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.