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Deuteronomy 18:21

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18:21Now if you say to yourselves,28 ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’29—

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Footnotes

  1. 28 Heb “in your heart.”
  2. 29 Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’—

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message the Lord has not spoken?’

NLTNew Living Translation

“But you may wonder, ‘How will we know whether or not a prophecy is from the Lord?’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken it?’

KJV 1900King James Version

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?