{ "schemaVersion": 1, "kind": "study-section", "id": "the-prophet-like-moses", "part": { "id": "second-address", "title": "Second address: life in the covenant", "summary": "The Ten Commandments, the great commandment, and the statutes for life in the land, ending with blessings and curses (4:44–28:68)." }, "title": "Levites and the prophet like Moses", "range": [ 5018001, 5018022 ], "summary": "The priests and Levites have no land; the LORD is their inheritance, and they live from the offerings. Israel must have nothing to do with divination or sorcery, for the LORD will raise up a prophet like Moses from among them, as the people asked at Horeb, and they must listen to him. A prophet whose word does not come true has not spoken for the LORD.", "recalls": [ { "event": "sinai", "range": [ 5018016, 5018016 ], "note": "The people asked not to hear God’s voice again at Horeb.", "reference": "Deuteronomy 18:16", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2018%3A16&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "A covenant at the mountain", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/sinai/" } ], "ahead": [ { "range": [ 44003022, 44003023 ], "note": "Peter applies the prophet like Moses to Jesus.", "event": "peter-preaches-in-solomons-portico", "reference": "Acts 3:22–23", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%203%3A22%E2%80%9323&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "Peter preaches in Solomon’s Colonnade", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/peter-preaches-in-solomons-portico/" }, { "range": [ 44007037, 44007037 ], "note": "Stephen quotes the promise.", "event": "stephen-addresses-the-council", "reference": "Acts 7:37", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%207%3A37&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "Stephen addresses the council", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/stephen-addresses-the-council/" }, { "range": [ 43006014, 43006014 ], "note": "After the feeding of the five thousand the crowd calls Jesus the Prophet.", "event": "feeding-of-five-thousand", "reference": "John 6:14", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%206%3A14&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "Feeding of Five Thousand", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/feeding-of-five-thousand/" } ], "questions": [ "Why do the apostles see Jesus as the prophet like Moses?" ], "studyId": "deuteronomy", "studyTitle": "Deuteronomy", "intro": "Deuteronomy records Moses’ last speeches to the new generation of Israel on the plains of Moab, in the fortieth year after the Exodus (1:3). It looks back over the journey from Egypt and Horeb and forward to life in the land, calling Israel to love the LORD and remember what he has done. Each section below lists what Moses recalls, with links to those events on the timeline, and where the rest of Scripture takes up the passage.", "setting": { "era": "exodus-wilderness", "place": "region-moab", "date": { "kind": "approximate", "label": "c. 1406 BC · Year 40, month 11 (Deuteronomy 1:3)", "earliest": -1406, "latest": -1406, "note": "Dated from 1 Kings 6:1 (the Exodus c. 1446 BC). Many scholars instead date the Exodus to about 1260 BC, placing these speeches about 1220 BC." } }, "places": [ { "id": "region-moab", "name": "Plains of Moab", "coordinate": [ 35.64, 31.85 ], "kind": "Region", "confidence": "Approximate region", "confidenceSource": "editorial", "sources": [ { "label": "Numbers 33:48–49 · extent of the camp", "url": "https://ebible.org/eng-web/NUM33.htm" } ], "extent": [ [ 35.56, 31.77 ], [ 35.7, 31.91 ] ] } ], "provenance": { "review": "draft", "sources": [ { "name": "editorial" } ] }, "passages": [ { "reference": "Deuteronomy 18:1–22", "range": [ 5018001, 5018022 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2018%3A1%E2%80%9322&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "You must be blameless before the LORD your God." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "This 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!”" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "I 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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him." } ] } ], "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?study=deuteronomy§ion=the-prophet-like-moses", "attribution": [ "Study guide: original editorial writing for Scripture Atlas.", "Place coordinates: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.", "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm" ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/the-prophet-like-moses/", "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/the-prophet-like-moses/index.md", "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/the-prophet-like-moses/index.json", "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.", "revision": "bc2f9456b3544a0e" }