TESTING THE PROPHET AND DREAMER

S. Deut. 13:1-5

1 IF A prophet (spokesman) arises among you, or a dreamer (to restore to health/be healthy/be strong)of dreams, and gives you a sign (consent that appears as evidence/proof in the form of a sign/signal/miracle/mark) or a wonder (conspicuous and beautiful wonder, sign, miracle, portent),

2 And the sign or the wonder he foretells to you comes to pass, and if he says, Let us go after other gods--gods you have not known--and let us serve them,

3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing (adventure/attempt, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test) you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being.

4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and [reverently] fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and cling to Him.

 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death,(to die prematurely by neglect of wise moral conduct) because he has talked rebellion and turning away from the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; that man has tried to draw you aside (to push off, to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.) from the way (journey, course of life, of moral character) in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So shall you put the evil away from your midst. (from out of the center)

14:

1YOU ARE the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut (to invade, attack, penetrate/to gather in troops or crowds) yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads (of mental and spiritual faculties) for the dead (to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct), 2For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar (to be shut up as God's valued property, peculiar treasure) people to Himself, above all the nations on the earth.