Ulangan 18:21

18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, ¹  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ²  –

Ulangan 21:7

21:7 Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ³  witnessed the crime. ⁴ 

[18:21]  ¹ tn Heb “in your heart.”

[18:21]  ² tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.

[21:7]  ³ tn Heb “our eyes.” This is a figure of speech known as synecdoche in which the part (the eyes) is put for the whole (the entire person).

[21:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “seen”; the implied object (the crime committed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.