Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezra 10:16

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezra 10:16 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezra 10:16. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezra, the people who had been living away from home listened and did what they were told. Ezra, the priest, and some important leaders got together on a special day to talk about and figure out what needed to be done.

Ezra 10:16: And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Contradiction with Matthew 19:6

This verse emphasizes the permanence of marriage, which contradicts with Ezra 10:16, where divorces were arranged.

Matthew 19:6: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 7:10-11

Paul advises against separation in marriage, conflicting with the divorces initiated in Ezra 10:16.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11: And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:

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