And the second category is that he say, "The word of God [came] to me to worship baal x or to bring down the force of the y queen of the heavens for matter z," and he says to them a matter from the matters of their service and the acts that the idolaters of that idolatry do, as it is established for us in the Torah. And this is also prophesying in the name of idolatry, as this [category] includes one who says that it itself commanded it [as well as] one who says that the Holy One, blessed be He, commanded to worship any thing from them.

And when we hear one of these two ideas from the one who [claims to] have prophecy, and witnesses testify about him according to that which is stated in the Torah; his judgement is that he be killed by strangulation, as the Holy One, blessed be, stated (Deuteronomy 13:6), "And that prophet or dream-diviner shall be put to death."

And it is not for us to examine the one who [claims] prophecy and we do not request a sign. And even – if to establish his prophecy – he does from the signs and wonders, the grandeur of which have not known, he is to be strangulated. And we do not examine his signs, as the reason for the existence of these signs is that which the verse states (Deuteronomy 13:4), "for the Lord, your God, is testing you."

And also, the intellect that denies his testimony is more trustworthy than the eye that sees his signs – as it has already become [exceedingly] clear for the intelligentsia to only honor and serve the One who makes exist all that exist and the One who brings together all perfection.

And the one who prophesies in the name of God is also divided into two categories: