Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 16:6

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 16:6 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 16:6. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God wants people to celebrate a special meal called Passover at the place He chooses. This is to remember when God helped them leave Egypt many years ago.

Deuteronomy 16:6: But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Contradiction with Exodus 12:6

Deuteronomy 16:6 specifies sacrificing the Passover only at the designated place chosen by God, while Exodus 12:6 allows each household to sacrifice the lamb.

Exodus 12:6: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. [in...: Heb. between the two evenings]

Contradiction with Numbers 9:2

Deuteronomy 16:6 emphasizes the specific location for sacrifices, but Numbers 9:2 permits the Passover to be kept wherever the Israelites are camped.

Numbers 9:2: Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 30:2-3

Deuteronomy 16:6 requires the Passover to be observed at a specific time, yet 2 Chronicles 30:2-3 describes a situation where Hezekiah observed it in the second month instead of the first due to unforeseen circumstances.

2 Chronicles 30:2-3: For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
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