Deuteronomy 18:15
New International Version
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

New Living Translation
Moses continued, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

English Standard Version
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

King James Bible
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

New King James Version
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,

New American Standard Bible
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen.

NASB 1995
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

NASB 1977
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; you shall listen to him.

Amplified Bible
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me [Moses] from among you, from your countrymen (brothers, brethren). You shall listen to him.

Christian Standard Bible
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

American Standard Version
Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH your God shall raise a Prophet to Himself from within you of your brethren, like me; you shall listen to him;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of thy brethren, like me; him shall ye hear:

Contemporary English Version
Instead, he will choose one of your own people to be a prophet just like me, and you must do what that prophet says.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:

English Revised Version
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD your God will send you a prophet, an Israelite like me. You must listen to him.

Good News Translation
Instead, he will send you a prophet like me from among your own people, and you are to obey him.

International Standard Version
"The LORD your God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your relatives. You must listen to him,

JPS Tanakh 1917
A prophet will the LORD thy God raise up unto thee, from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Literal Standard Version
Your God YHWH raises up for you a Prophet like me out of your midst, out of your brothers—you must listen to Him,

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

New American Bible
A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kindred; that is the one to whom you shall listen.

NET Bible
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you--from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD thy God will raise up to thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like to me; to him ye shall hearken.

World English Bible
Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Young's Literal Translation
'A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee -- unto him ye hearken;

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Context
A New Prophet
15The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him. 16This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”…

Cross References
Matthew 21:11
The crowds replied, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee."

Luke 2:25
Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Luke 7:16
A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us!" they said. "God has visited His people!"

Luke 24:19
"What things?" He asked. "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. "This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

John 1:21
"Then who are you?" they inquired. "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

John 1:25
asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

John 4:19
"Sir," the woman said, "I see that You are a prophet.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the middle of you, of your brothers, like to me; to him you shall listen;

a Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:18,19
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him…

John 1:45
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

Acts 3:22,23
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you…

like unto me

Deuteronomy 5:5
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

Deuteronomy 34:10
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

Luke 24:19
And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:

unto him

Matthew 17:5
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

Luke 9:35
And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

Luke 10:16
He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

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Deuteronomy 18
1. The LORD is the priests and Levites' inheritance
3. The priests' due
6. The Levites' portion
9. The abominations of the nations are to be avoided
15. Christ the Prophet is to be heard
20. The presumptuous prophet is to die














Deuteronomy 18:15-20. THE ONE MEDIATOR.

The connection between these verses and the preceding is well illustrated by Isaiah's question (Deuteronomy 8:19): "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" Or, as the angels turned the phrase on Easter morning, "Why seek ye Him that liveth among the dead?"

(15) The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet.--Namely, Him of whom St. Peter spoke in Acts 3:22-26. "Unto you first God, having raised up His son Jesus, sent Him to bless you." It must not be forgotten that the prophetic office is still continued to our risen Lord. He still "speaketh from heaven." But He "descended first into the lower parts of the earth." He has "the keys of hell and of death;" and knows all their secrets. They who can draw near to Him have no need to look downward, to consult dead relatives, or seek knowledge from spirits whose character, even if they are accessible, is beyond our discernment. The Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Advocate on earth, and the Prophet, our Advocate that speaketh from heaven, are enough for all human need. What we cannot learn from them, or from the light they give us, it is better not to know.

(16) According to all that thou desiredst . . . in Horeb.--It should never be forgotten that the Prophet like to Moses was promised on "the day of the assembly." The Holy Spirit, who is Christ in us, was promised on the day of the delivery of the "letter that killeth." (See also on Deuteronomy 5:28.)

(18) He shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.--"The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself" (our Lord, in John 14:10). "He shall not speak of Himself. He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you" (the Holy Spirit, John 16:13-14). . . .

Verses 15-22. - There should be no need for Israel to turn to heathen soothsayers, or diviners, or such like, because from amongst themselves, of their own brethren, would God raise up prophets like unto Moses, who, as occasion required, would reveal to them what God willed them to know. Verse 15. - A Prophet. The Hebrew word so rendered (נָבִיא) is a derivative from a verb (נָבָא), which signifies to tell, to announce; hence the primary concept of the word is that of announcer, or forth-speaker; and to this the word "prophet" (Greek προφήτης from πρόφημι, I speak before or in place of) closely corresponds; the prophet is one who speaks in the place of God, who conveys God's word to men, who is an interpreter of God to men. (As illustrative of the meaning of the word, cf. Exodus 7:1; Exodus 4:16.) Hence Abraham is called a prophet (Genesis 20:7), and the term is applied to the patriarchs generally (Psalm 105:15); God conveyed his mind to them, and they spoke it forth to others (cf. Amos 3:7). Like unto me. When the people heard the voice of God speaking to them at Sinai, and from the midst of the fire uttering to them the Ten Words, they were struck with terror, and besought that they might not again hear that awful voice, but that Moses might act as mediator between God and them - might hear what God should say, and speak it unto them (Deuteronomy 5:22-27). Moses thus became God's prophet to the people; and of this he reminds them here, as well as of the circumstances amid which he entered specially on this office (cf. vers. 16, 17). The phrase, "like unto me," does not necessarily imply that the prophet who was to come after Moses was to be in every respect the same as he; all that is indicated is that he would act as Moses had acted as a mediator between God and the people in the way of conveying his will to them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will raise up
יָקִ֥ים (yā·qîm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

for you a prophet
נָבִ֨יא (nā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

like me
כָּמֹ֔נִי (kā·mō·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

from among
מִקִּרְבְּךָ֤ (miq·qir·bə·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center

your own brothers.
מֵאַחֶ֙יךָ֙ (mê·’a·ḥe·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

You must listen
תִּשְׁמָעֽוּן׃ (tiš·mā·‘ūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

to him.
אֵלָ֖יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to


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