Chapter 18
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For these nations that you are inheriting, they will listen to diviners and diviners, but you not so; the LORD your God has not given you to them.
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The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet from your midst, from your brothers, like me; you shall listen to him.
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just as you asked of the LORD your God at the mountain on the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not continue to hear the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die."
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And the LORD said to me, "They have done well in what they have spoken."
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I will raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
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And it will be that the man who does not listen to my words which he speaks in my name—I will require it of him.
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But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name—what I did not command him to speak—or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
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And if you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word that the LORD did not speak?"
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which the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the word does not come—the word that the prophet did not speak in the name of the LORD—that prophet has spoken in high-handedness. You shall not be afraid of him.