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Deuteronomy 18:21
“If you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 18
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It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
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But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
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If you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?
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when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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