Deuteronomy 18:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 Anyone who will not listen to my words which the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will hold accountable for it.(A) 20 But if a prophet presumes to speak a word in my name(B) that I have not commanded, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
21 Should you say to yourselves, “How can we recognize that a word is one the Lord has not spoken?”,
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