Deuteronomy 13:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

you shall not listen unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבָ֤א הָאוֹת֙ וְהַמּוֹפֵ֔ת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אֵלֶ֖יךָ לֵאמֹ֑ר נֽ͏ֵלְכָ֞ה אַחֲרֵ֨י אֱלֹהִ֧ים אֲחֵרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יְדַעְתָּ֖ם וְנָֽעָבְדֵֽם׃

Transliteration

And-bāʾ the-ʾôt and-the-môpēt which-dibbēr to-you lēʾmōr: let-us-nēlĕkāh after ʾĕlōhîm ʾăḥērîm which not-you-have-yĕdaʿtām and-let-us-nāʿābdēm,

Grammar Details

*bāʾ*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - came/comes to pass
*ʾôt*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the sign
*môpēt*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the wonder/portent
*dibbēr*: piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he spoke/promised
*lēʾmōr*: preposition lamed + qal infinitive construct - saying
*nēlĕkāh*: qal imperfect cohortative, 1st person plural - let us go/walk
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - gods
*ʾăḥērîm*: adjective, masculine plural - other/foreign/strange
*yĕdaʿtām*: qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - you knew them
*nāʿābdēm*: qal imperfect cohortative, 1st person plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - let us serve/worship them

Word Meanings

*bôʾ*: come/go/arrive/happen
*dābar*: speak/declare/command
*hālak*: go/walk/follow
*ʾĕlōhîm*: gods/deities (plural form)
*ʾaḥēr*: other/foreign/strange/different
*yādaʿ*: know/learn/perceive/recognize
*ʿābad*: serve/work for/worship

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Referenced Verses

Deut 8:2 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.
Deut 6:5 : 5 and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.
2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, {G3588} after the wiles of error;
2 Thess 2:11 : 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.
1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:4 : 4 Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
Rev 13:14 : 14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.
Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:
Ps 66:10 : 10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Ps 81:7 : 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. {H5542}
Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures {G2596} daily, whether these things were so.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Deut 13:1-2
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1If there arise in the middle of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
2and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
Deut 13:4-7
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4You shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Jehovah your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the middle of you.
6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, that is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
7of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near unto you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
Jer 23:16
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16Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
Jer 29:8-9
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8For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
9For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.
Deut 18:20-22
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20But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?
22when a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Ezek 13:2-3
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2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah:
3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Deut 11:16
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16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deut 30:17
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17But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Deut 11:13
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13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Jer 27:9-10
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9But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
10for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
Num 12:6
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6And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Jehovah will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
Deut 18:14-15
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14For these nations, that thou shalt dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but as for thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
15Jehovah 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;
Jer 23:32
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32Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.
Jer 14:14
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14Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.
Jer 23:25-26
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25I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Deut 8:2
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2And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.
Jer 27:14-15
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14And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.
15For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Acts 3:23
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23And it shall be, that every {G302} soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.
Deut 6:14
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14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
Deut 6:5
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5and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Josh 23:11
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11Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Deut 12:4
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4Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God.
Deut 13:12
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12If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Jehovah your God gives you to live there, saying,
Jer 23:28
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28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
Deut 17:3
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3and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deut 28:14
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14and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
1 John 4:1
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1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Deut 30:10
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10if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Ps 81:9
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9There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
Deut 10:12
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12And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deut 30:2
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2and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;
Zech 13:3
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3And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Deut 6:16-17
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16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
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Ezek 13:7
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7Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?
2 Kgs 17:13
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13Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Deut 27:10
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10Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Deut 4:29
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29But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.