Deuteronomy 18:7-22
English Standard Version
Chapter 18
7and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
9"When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
10There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
11or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
12for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because 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.
15"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 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.’
17And the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken.
18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
19And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
20But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or 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?’ —
22when 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; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
