First of all: If that's true, why did God say to Moses (PBUH) "I will raise them up a Prophet from among THEIR brethren," Why did not he say "I will raise them up a Prophet from among YOUR brethren," as long as Moses is from "Bnei Yisrael" ? by the way; The Almighty God is Infallible and you do believe in that. It's obvious Their brethren refers to Ishmaelites. Not Israelites. In verse (18:15) before, it's written: "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him." Now: Here is the full verse in question (Deuteronomy 18:18): "I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him." No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face. Deuteronomy 34:10
Moses was the only prophet in Judaism to whom Gd communicated face to face.Every other prophet was given their messages in dreams and such. In these verses Gd is speaking directly to Moses and therefore says THEIR brethren to refer to the rest of the nation. As it is known, the verse is referring to later generations of which Moses would not be apart so the 3rd person is referring to these generations. The Ishmaelites had nothing to do Bnei Israel, they were not given the Torah and thus were no subject to its laws. To be honest, I don't really care what the Koran says. I'm concentrating on your claims about the meaning within the Hebrew Scripture. I'll continue on: "The specific thing here is that the prophet who comes is illiterate. He does not read nor he writes and the revelation that came to him was oral. "will put my words in his mouth", that is, he does not write down the revelation." That's your interpretation based on your belief in Mohammed. The verse says nothing about illiteracy, or about not having written transmission. Every prophet was given a message, the words from gd, then he transferred these words on to the rest of the people, obviously orally. "According to the Hebrew Dictionary of the Bible, "Brethren" is the: "Personification of a group of tribes who were regarded as near kinsmen of the Israelites." and the Bible refers to the Israelites as the brethren of the Ishmaelites in (Genesis. 16:12) and (Genesis. 25:18)." As true as that is about the Ishmaelites being a distant kin of Bnei Israel, they are not brethren in the same sense of other Israelites, especially after the revelation of the Torah. Another quote will illustrate this
"Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed." Genesis 37:27 When Joseph's brothers sell him into slavery to the Ishmaelites, they refer to him as a brother, of their flesh and blood. This description is not given to the Ishmaelite that they sell him to. "Isaiah 42:1-13 speaks of the beloved of God. His elect and messenger who will bring down a law to be awaited in the isles and who "shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgement on earth." Verse 11, connects that awaited one with the descendants of Kedar." The verse is: 'The wilderness and its cities will life (their voices), the open cities were Kedar dwells' This doesn't say anything about the awaited one having anything to do Kedar, it just says that its in the area where he once dwelt. The 'awaited one' referred to in Isaiah is the Messiah, who is supposed to come from the line of King David. Nowhere does it say anything about anyone of importance coming from the line of Kedar, Ishmael or anyone else.
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