Deuteronomy 18:16-18

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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 have rightly said all that they have spoken. ¹⁸I will raise up for them a prophet^[a] like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

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18.18 The prophet like Moses mentioned here refers either to the prophetic movement as a whole or to an individual, either Joshua (successor of Moses) or Samuel. The New Testament sees here a reference to the Messiah; cf. Jn 1.21; Acts 3.22; 7.37.

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