Deuteronomy 18
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
Deuteronomy 18
Detestable Practices
9 When you enter
the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the
detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who
sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or
sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or
spiritist or who consults the dead. 12
Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of
these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those
nations before you. 13
You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
14
The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or
divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to
do so. 15 The LORD
your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own
brothers. You must listen to him. 16
For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of
the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our
God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
17 The LORD
said to me: “What they say is good. 18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers;
I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I
command him. 19 If
anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name,
I myself will call him to account. 20
But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not
commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other
gods, must be put to death.”
21 You may
say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken
by the LORD?” 22
If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place
or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet
has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
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