Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 1:7

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 1:7 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 1:7. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God is telling the people to get moving and explore all the different lands He promised them, like mountains, valleys, and places by the sea. It's like God is saying they should go on a big adventure to see and trust Him for everything He has planned for them.

Deuteronomy 1:7: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. [all...: Heb. all his neighbours]

Contradiction with Numbers 14:25

This verse instructs the Israelites not to go into the land of the Amorites because the Amalekites and Canaanites dwell there, directly contradicting the instruction to enter in Deuteronomy 1:7.

Numbers 14:25: (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 2:4

God commands the Israelites not to meddle with the descendants of Esau, effectively limiting their journey and suggesting a boundary which might contradict the expansive direction in Deuteronomy 1:7.

Deuteronomy 2:4: And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

Contradiction with Numbers 20:17

The Israelites seek permission to pass through Edom, implying they are not proceeding directly as commanded in Deuteronomy 1:7 but are attempting to go through another land first.

Numbers 20:17: Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink [of] the water of the wells: we will go by the king's [high] way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 1:19

This verse describes the journey through the wilderness to Kadesh-barnea, suggesting a path different from directly going to the lands mentioned in Deuteronomy 1:7.

Deuteronomy 1:19: And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 1:40

God instructs the Israelites to turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, contrasting the direct approach to the promised lands outlined in Deuteronomy 1:7.

Deuteronomy 1:40: But [as for] you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
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