Deuteronomy 18:10–22

¹⁰There shall not be found among you anyone ^xwho burns his son or his daughter as an offering,⁵ anyone who ^ypractices divination or ^ztells fortunes or interprets omens, or ^aa sorcerer ¹¹or a charmer or ^ba medium or a necromancer or ^cone who inquires of the dead, ^12dfor whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And ^ebecause 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

^15f“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 ^gon the day of the assembly, when you said, ^h‘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, ⁱ‘They are right in what they have spoken. ^18fI will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. ^jAnd I will put my words in his mouth, and ^khe shall speak to them all that I command him. ^19lAnd whoever will ^mnot listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. ²⁰ⁿBut the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or⁶ 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?’— ^22owhen 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; ⁿthe prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.