21And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?


In Context

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like to you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

19 And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?

22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:21You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord ?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:21And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word that Jehovah hath not spoken?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21And if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21If you say in your heart, |How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21And when thou sayest in thy heart, How do we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? —