Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezra 6:19

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezra 6:19 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezra 6:19. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezra, the people who had been taken away to another land came together to celebrate a special meal called Passover. This was an important day for them to remember how God helped them long ago.

Ezra 6:19: And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

Contradiction with Numbers 9:2-3

These verses contradict Ezra 6:19 as they specify that Passover occurs in the first month, whereas Ezra 6:19 discusses celebrating it on the fourteenth day of the first month, raising the question of preparation timing.

Numbers 9:2-3: Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Contradiction with Exodus 12:15

Contradicts by emphasizing the strict observance of unleavened bread immediately following the Passover, thus questioning the preparation allowance mentioned in Ezra 6:19.

Exodus 12:15: Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 30:2-3

King Hezekiah delayed the Passover to the second month due to impurity issues, contrasting with Ezra 6:19, which adheres to the original timing without mention of such delays.

2 Chronicles 30:2-3: For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

Contradiction with Leviticus 23:5

Specifies the Passover as occurring on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight, aligning with but also questioning the timeline given in Ezra 6:19 regarding the day of assembly and preparation.

Leviticus 23:5: In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover.
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