Contradictions and Paradoxes in Ezra 8:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Ezra 8:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Ezra 8:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Ezra, this verse means that he is listing the leaders and families who traveled with him from Babylon when King Artaxerxes was in charge. It's like a record of who went on a big journey together.

Ezra 8:1: These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

Contradiction with Ezra 2:64

Contradicts Ezra 8:1 by showing a different total number of people who returned from exile.

Ezra 2:64: The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred [and] threescore,

Contradiction with Ezra 2:3-15

Lists the family heads and numbers returning from exile which differ from the list in Ezra 8:1.

Ezra 2:3-15: The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

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