Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 18:17-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

17. Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

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. I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to My words that he speaks in My name.

20. But the prophet who dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods — that prophet must die.’

21. You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message the Lord has not spoken? ’