Catholic Public Domain Version
"But if, in silent thought, you respond: “How will I be able to recognize a word which the Lord has not spoken?” "
— Deuteronomy 18:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?”
“And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? ”
“If you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?"”
“Now if you say to yourselves,‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’–”
“And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?”
“And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?”
“And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?”
I will raise up a prophet for them, from the midst of their brothers, similar to you. And I will place my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all the things that I will instruct him.
But against anyone who is not willing to listen to his words, which he will speak in my name, I will stand forth as the avenger.
But if a prophet, having been corrupted by arrogance, chooses to speak, in my name, things which I did not instruct him to say, or to speak in the name of foreign gods, he shall be put to death.
But if, in silent thought, you respond: “How will I be able to recognize a word which the Lord has not spoken?”
you shall have this sign. If whatever that prophet predicts in the name of the Lord does not happen, then the Lord has not spoken it. Instead, the prophet has formed it through the swelling of his own mind. And for this reason, you shall not fear him.’ ”