Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 2:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 2:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 2:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Deuteronomy, God guided the people on a journey through the desert near the big Red Sea. They spent many days around a place called Mount Seir.

Deuteronomy 2:1: Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Contradiction with Numbers 14:33

Deuteronomy 2:1 describes the Israelites moving for a short period, while Numbers 14:33 states they will wander for forty years.

Numbers 14:33: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. [wander: or, feed]

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 1:40

This verse dictates a turn towards the Red Sea through the desert, similar to but not necessarily aligning with the movement described in Deuteronomy 2:1.

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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