The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
- KJV 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;
- NKJV “The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,
- NASB “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen.
- NLT 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.
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Quick answer
God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses from among Israel, and the people must listen to him. This points ultimately to Christ, the supreme Prophet.
Overview
Instead of forbidden divination, God will provide true revelation through a coming prophet like Moses, mediating His word to the people. While fulfilled in part through Israel's line of prophets, the New Testament identifies its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus (Acts 3:22-23). He is the final Prophet who fully reveals the Father and whom all must heed.
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Fulfillment
- Acts 3:22For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
Cross-references · 19
- Acts 3:22–23For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Acts 7:37This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
- John 1:45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
- Deut 18:18–19I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- Luke 9:35And a voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, whom I have chosen. Listen to Him!”
- Heb 1:1–2On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
- Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
- 1 Tim 2:5For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- John 6:29Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
- 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.
- 1 Jn 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
- Heb 3:2–6He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
- Heb 2:1–3We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
- Deut 34:10Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—
- Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
- John 1:25asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
- John 1:21“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
- Deut 5:5At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
- Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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