Deuteronomy 18:10-22 ▼

10 There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, a user of divinations, a soothsayer, or a diviner, or a sorcerer,

11 or one who conjures spells or consults a medium, or a spiritist, or a seeker of the dead.

12 For an abomination to YHWH is everyone doing these things, and because of these abominations YHWH your God is driving them out from before you.

13 You shall be blameless before YHWH your God.

14 For these nations that you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners, and as for you, YHWH your God has not given for you to do so.

15 YHWH your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me; you? must listen to him

16 according to all that you desired of YHWH your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my God, and let me not see this great fire anymore, so that I will not die.”

17 And YHWH said to me, “What they have spoken is good.

18 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.

19 And it shall come to pass that whoever will not listen to My words, which he speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods—indeed that prophet must be put to death.

21 And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word that YHWH has not spoken?”

22 When a prophet speaks in the name of YHWH and the thing does not happen, and it does not come to pass, it is the thing that YHWH has not spoken. Proudly the prophet has spoken it; you shall not be afraid of him.