Contradictions and Paradoxes in Exodus 32:15

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Exodus 32:15 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Exodus 32:15. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Exodus, Moses came down from the mountain carrying two special stone tablets that had writing on both sides. These tablets had important words from God.

Exodus 32:15: And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other [were] they written.

Contradiction with Matthew 5:17

This verse speaks about Jesus fulfilling the law, which contrasts with the destruction of the tablets that contain the law in Exodus 32:15.

Matthew 5:17: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 31:33

This verse speaks about God's law being written in the hearts of people, contrasting with the physical tablets of the law in Exodus 32:15.

Jeremiah 31:33: But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Contradiction with Hebrews 8:10

Like Jeremiah 31:33, this verse describes a new covenant with the law written on hearts rather than tablets, which contrasts the stone tablets Moses carried in Exodus 32:15.

Hebrews 8:10: For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: [put: Gr. give] [in: or, upon]
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