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18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command. 19 I will personally hold responsible[a] anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet[b] speaks in my name.

20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized[c] him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:19 tn Heb “will seek from him”; NAB “I myself will make him answer for it”; NRSV “will hold accountable.”
  2. Deuteronomy 18:19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet mentioned in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. Deuteronomy 18:20 tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).