Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezekiel 45:5

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezekiel 45:5 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezekiel 45:5. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezekiel, God wanted the Levites, who are special helpers at the temple, to have a big piece of land to live and work on with rooms for them to stay in. This land was a gift for them because of their important job.

Ezekiel 45:5: And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

Contradiction with Numbers 18:20

God tells Aaron they shall have no inheritance in the land, contradicting the provision of land to the Levites in Ezekiel 45:5.

Numbers 18:20: And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 10:9

The Levites have no portion or inheritance with their brethren, contradicting the designated land given to them in Ezekiel 45:5.

Deuteronomy 10:9: Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

Contradiction with Joshua 13:14

The Levites receive no inheritance of land, which contradicts the allocation of land to them in Ezekiel 45:5.

Joshua 13:14: Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their inheritance, as he said unto them.

Contradiction with Joshua 18:7

Levites do not receive a portion among the Israelites in terms of land, contradicting Ezekiel 45:5's allocation.

Joshua 18:7: But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

Contradiction with Numbers 18:23-24

Levi's inheritance is the tithes, not land, directly opposing the land allocation in Ezekiel 45:5.

Numbers 18:23-24: But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
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