Deuteronomy 18:21-22
21Now if you say to yourselves, ▼▼tn Heb “in your heart.”
‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ▼▼tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.
— 22whenever a prophet speaks in my ▼ name and the prediction ▼▼tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
is not fulfilled, ▼▼tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
then I have ▼ not spoken it; ▼▼tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”
the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
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