This Deuteronomy 18 quiz tests how well you know one of the most layered chapters in Moses’s address to Israel — covering priestly rights, a precise catalogue of occult practices Israel was strictly forbidden to follow, and the landmark prophecy of a coming Prophet. If you have been working through this book, try the Deuteronomy 5 quiz and the Deuteronomy 6 quiz before or after this one. For a broader measure of your scriptural depth, the hardest Bible trivia questions and our entire Bible quiz are worth your time. Those who want to understand what Moses’s prophetic role in this chapter actually pointed to may find it worth reading what Moses knew that most Christians don’t.
Deuteronomy 18 Quiz Questions and Answers
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Answer 1: C. The exact word used is “hearken,” not submit, follow, attend, or answer. The verse ends precisely: “unto him ye shall hearken.”
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:15. “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.”
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Answer 2: A. The verdict is death, stated plainly. The method is not specified here; the condition is the presumption of speaking what God did not command.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:20. “But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak… even that prophet shall die.”
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Answer 3: E. The specific word is “inheritance.” Options A through D substitute theologically plausible words that do not appear in this verse. The Levites received no territorial inheritance precisely because the LORD was designated their inheritance.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:2. “Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.”
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Answer 4: B. The three parts are the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the maw. Option A replaces “two cheeks” with “breast,” which belongs to Leviticus’s peace offering provisions. Options C and D introduce the right thigh, which does not appear here.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:3. “And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.”
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Answer 5: D. A necromancer appears only in verse 11. Observer of times, witch, divination, and passing children through fire are all enumerated in verse 10. A careless reader who reads both verses without distinguishing them will miss this.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:11. “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”
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Answer 6: A. The word is “perfect.” The other options are not wrong as theological concepts, but they are not the word used here. “Perfect” in this context means whole, complete, undivided in allegiance, as opposed to hedging between the LORD and occult consultation.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:13. “Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.”
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Answer 7: C. God said He would put His words in the Prophet’s mouth, and the Prophet would speak all that God commanded him. The placement of words in the mouth is the precise image used, distinguishing this from a general endowment of the Spirit or the law.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:18. “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
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Answer 8: E. The verse specifies corn, wine, oil, and the first of the fleece of the sheep. Barley, honey, and oxen are not mentioned. Option D says “whole flock” while the verse says “sheep” specifically. Option B is a trap; oxen do not produce fleece.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:4. “The firstfruit of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.”
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Answer 9: B. The location named is Horeb, also called “the day of the assembly.” Israel’s request there was that they not hear God’s voice directly again or see the great fire, lest they die. Sinai is a common wrong answer since the events are related, but the text here names Horeb.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:16. “According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.”
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Answer 10: D. The Levite coming from outside received “like portions,” equal to those of the Levites already stationed at the chosen place. No hierarchy of portions based on residence or seniority is established here.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:8. “They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.”
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Answer 11: E. The phrase is “I will require it of him.” The other options import language from other Mosaic passages: cut off, destroy, drive out, blot out. None of these appear in this verse. The chapter is deliberate and restrained: God will require it, without elaborating the mechanism.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:19. “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
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Answer 12: B. The stated purpose is to stand and minister in the name of the LORD. The other options describe functions Levites performed in other contexts, but none of them is the specific phrase used in this verse.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:5. “For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.”
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Answer 13: A. The verse specifies exactly two: observers of times and diviners. The other options rearrange terms from the broader list in verses 10–11, but verse 14 names these two specifically in the context of the nations.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:14. “For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so.”
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Answer 14: D. He ministers exactly as all his brethren the Levites do, those who already stand before the LORD at the chosen place. No distinction is made between the visiting Levite and the resident Levite in terms of manner of service.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:7. “Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.”
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Answer 15: C. The second condition in verse 20 is speaking in the name of other gods. Option A describes the test for a false prophet given in verse 22, not a death condition stated in verse 20. Students who confuse the two verses will choose A.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:20. “But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.”
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Answer 16: B. The phrase used is “with all the desire of his mind.” It is a statement of voluntary, whole-hearted intention, not obligation, not ritual preparation, not institutional permission.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:6. “And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose.”
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Answer 17: D. The instruction is “thou shalt not be afraid of him.” The failed prophecy is the marker; fear of the false prophet is explicitly forbidden. Stoning, reporting, silencing, and expelling do not appear in this verse.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:22. “When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
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Answer 18: A. The verse states they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Firstfruits and tithes appear in related passages but are not what verse 1 names. The chapter addresses their portions from fire offerings specifically.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:1. “The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.”
Answer 19: C. The reason given is their abominations: specifically, the occult practices listed in verses 10–11. The verse does not specify images, sabbath-breaking, or named deities. The word “abominations” is the direct answer.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:12. “For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”
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Answer 20: E. The question is specifically about identifying a word the LORD has not spoken, not about identifying a true prophet or fleeing his influence. The framing is diagnostic: a test for the message, not the messenger.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 18:21. “And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?”
The chapter that promises a Prophet also lists, in precise detail, every counterfeit route Israel was forbidden to take to reach the divine.
