14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.

A New Prophet like Moses

15 ^q“The Lord your God will raise up for you a ^rprophet like me from among you, from your brothers—^sit is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ^t‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 17 And the Lord said to me, ^u‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and ^vhe shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself 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, or¹ who speaks in the name of other gods, ^wthat same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for ^eMoses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 10 And there has not arisen a ^fprophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew ^gface to face, 11 none like him for all the ^hsigns and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 12 and for all the mighty power and all the ⁱgreat deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.