18 I will raise up a prophet from among their [a]countrymen like you, and (A)I will put My words in his mouth, and (B)he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 (C)It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who speaks a word (D)presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or (E)which he speaks in the name of other gods, [b]that prophet shall die.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:18 Lit brothers
  2. Deuteronomy 18:20 Lit and that

18 I will raise up for them a prophet(A) like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words(B) in his mouth.(C) He will tell them everything I command him.(D) 19 I myself will call to account(E) anyone who does not listen(F) to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.(G) 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods,(H) is to be put to death.”(I)

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