Deuteronomy 18:10–22

¹⁰No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire, ^fgpractice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery, ¹¹cast spells, consult a medium or a familiar spirit, or inquire of the dead. ^h12Everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things. ¹³You must be blameless before the Lord your God. ¹⁴Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.

¹⁵“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. ⁱYou must listen to him. ¹⁶This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’ ^j17Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well. ¹⁸I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. ¹⁹I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to My words that he speaks in My name. ^k20But the prophet who dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet must die.’ ²¹You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message the Lord has not spoken?’ ²²When a prophet speaks in the Lord’s name, and the message does not come true or is not fulfilled, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.