Deuteronomy 18:15-22
A Women’s Lectionary – Fourth Sunday of Easter
15 The LordA your GodB will raise upC for you a prophetD like me
from amongE your own people;F you shall heedG such a prophet.
16 This is whatH you requestedI of the Lord your God at HorebJ on the dayK of the assemblyL when you said:
“If I hearM the voiceN of the Lord my God any more,O or ever again seeP this greatQ fire,R I will die.”S
17 Then the Lord replied to me: “They are rightT in what they have said.U 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will putV my wordsW in the mouthX of the prophet, who shall speakY to them everythingZ that I command.AA
19 BBAnyoneCC who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in my name,DD I myself will hold accountable.EE
20 But any prophet who speaks in the name of otherFF gods,GG or who presumesHH to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak—that prophet shall die.”
21 You may say to yourself,II “How can we recognizeJJ a word that the Lord has not spoken?”
22 If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but the thingKK does not take placeLL or prove true,MM it is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously;NN do not be frightenedOO by it.
Image credit: “Moses and the Commandments” by Thayer Grimes, ca. 1935-1943.