NET Bible
"Now if you say to yourselves,‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’–"
— Deuteronomy 18:21, NET Bible
“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?"”
“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 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.
I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
Now if you say to yourselves,‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’–
whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”