Contradiction with Numbers 14:33
Deuteronomy 2:16 states that the men of war perished before transitioning to the next phase, while Numbers 14:33 mentions that the children wander 40 years until all men of war have died, implying a continuous process.
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 Joshua 5:6
Deuteronomy 2:16 suggests a completion of a process where all men of war perished, whereas Joshua 5:6 clarifies that the wandering and dying lasted the entire 40 years, indicating an ongoing occurrence rather than a completed act.
Joshua 5:6: For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.