Deuteronomy 18:15

18:15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you – from your fellow Israelites; ¹  you must listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:18-20

18:18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command. 18:19 I will personally hold responsible ²  anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet ³  speaks in my name.

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ⁴  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

¹ tc The MT expands here on the usual formula by adding “from among you” (cf. Deut 17:15; 18:18; Smr; a number of Greek texts). The expansion seems to be for the purpose of emphasis, i.e., the prophet to come must be not just from Israel but an Israelite by blood.

² tn Heb “will seek from him”; NAB “I myself will make him answer for it”; NRSV “will hold accountable.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet mentioned in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).