Deuteronomy 18:16-20
Deuteronomy 18:16
This is in accordance with everything that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Do not let me hear the voice of the Lord my God again, and do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die!’
Deuteronomy 18:17
And the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.
Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them everything that I command him.
Deuteronomy 18:19
And it shall come about that whoever does not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will require it of him.
Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, a word which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’