Deuteronomy 18:10–22

¹⁰There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter ^kpass ⁵through the fire, ^lor one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, ^11mor one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or ⁿone who calls up the dead. ¹²For all who do these things are ⁶an abomination to the Lord, and ^obecause of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. ¹³You shall be ⁷blameless before the Lord your God. ¹⁴For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not ⁸appointed such for you.

A New Prophet Like Moses

^15p“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, ¹⁶according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb ^qin the day of the assembly, saying, ^r‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

¹⁷“And the Lord said to me: ^s‘What they have spoken is good. ^18tI will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and ^uwill put My words in His mouth, ^vand He shall speak to them all that I command Him. ^19wAnd it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. ²⁰But ^xthe prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^ywho speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ ²¹And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’—^22zwhen a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, ^aif the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it ^bpresumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.