Deuteronomy 18:15–22

A New Prophet Like Moses

¹⁵“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.^{u* 16}This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’^{* 17}Then the Lord replied to me, ‘They are right in what they have said.^{* 18}I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet,^v who shall speak to them everything that I command.^{* 19}Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet^w shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.^{* 20}But any prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’^{* 21}You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a word that the Lord has not spoken?’ ²²If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it.^*