Contradictions and Paradoxes in Exodus 8:30

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Exodus 8:30 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Exodus 8:30. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Exodus, Moses asked God for help after talking to Pharaoh. He prayed to God because he needed His help and wanted God to listen to his request.

Exodus 8:30: And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.

Contradiction with Isaiah 1:15

This verse suggests that God does not always listen to prayers, especially when hands are full of blood, contradicting the idea that God immediately responded to Moses in Exodus 8:30.

Isaiah 1:15: And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. [make...: Heb. multiply prayer] [blood: Heb. bloods]

Contradiction with Proverbs 28:9

Whoever turns away their ear from hearing the law, even their prayer shall be an abomination, which contrasts with Exodus 8:30, where a prayer is answered positively without mention of adherence to the law.

Proverbs 28:9: He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination.

Contradiction with Lamentations 3:44

States that God may cover Himself with a cloud so that prayer cannot pass through, which contradicts the immediate and visible response found in Exodus 8:30.

Lamentations 3:44: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.

Contradiction with James 4:3

When asking, you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, contrary to the success of Moses' intercession without questioning his motives in Exodus 8:30.

James 4:3: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. [lusts: or, pleasures]

Contradiction with 1 Peter 3:12

This verse says the Lord's ears are open unto the righteous, suggesting conditional listening which contrasts the straightforward response to Moses in Exodus 8:30.

1 Peter 3:12: For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil. [against: Gr. upon]
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