---
title: Deuteronomy 34:10
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/deuteronomy-34-10/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/deuteronomy-34-10.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Deuteronomy 34:10
testament: OT
section: Law
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Deuteronomy 34:10

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "But there has never again arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah knew face-to-face."

## JW Usage

JWs do not typically lean on this verse in standard arguments. When it is cited, the focus is on Moses' uniqueness as a prophetic standard, which fits naturally with the Watchtower's broader concern about identifying genuine prophetic voices.

## Protestant Usage

This closing verse of Deuteronomy is the inspired narrator's claim that no prophet like Moses has arisen in Israel — "whom Jehovah knew face-to-face". The verse reads forward, not backward: it leaves a gap. Moses predicted a prophet "like me" in Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 34:10 confirms that no Old Testament prophet filled the prediction. The slot remained open until Christ — Peter (Acts 3:22-26), Stephen (Acts 7:37) and Jesus himself (John 5:46) close it in him. The doorstep insight is structural: Deuteronomy itself testifies that the Mosaic prediction was not exhausted in the prophetic record up to Malachi; it was waiting for the eschatological prophet who finally appears in the Son.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Deuteronomy 18 — A Prophet Like Moses, Singular and Eschatological](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/deuteronomy-18-prophet-like-moses.md) — Acts 3:22 — Moses said, the Lord God will raise up for you a prophet [Eschatology]