Deuteronomy 5:28
5:28 When the
Lord heard you speaking to me, he
1 said to me, “I have heard what these people have said to you – they have spoken well.
Deuteronomy 18:20
18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized 2 him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
Deuteronomy 18:22
18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my
3 name and the prediction
4 is not fulfilled,
5 then I have
6 not spoken it;
7 the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
1 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “He” in 5:3.
2 tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.
4 tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
5 tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
6 tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.
7 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”