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If a prophet or one who foretells the future through dreams arises among you and performs some miraculous sign or wonder and that miraculous sign or wonder occurs, and he says to you, “Let us seek after other gods which we have not previously known and serve them,” you are not to listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams.[a] The Lord, your God, is testing you to see whether you love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and your soul.

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  1. Deuteronomy 13:4 Dreamer of dreams: this admonition to avoid false prophets does not discount the possibility of genuine revelations proceeding from dreams (see Gen 20:3, 6; 37:5, 9; Mt 1:20).