Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 11:19

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 11:19 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 11:19. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, Peleg had a baby named Reu and lived for a very long time, even after Reu was born, and he also had other sons and daughters. This verse helps show the long lifespans and big families in Bible times.

Genesis 11:19: And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Contradiction with Genesis 6:3

This verse limits human lifespan to 120 years, contrasting the extended lifespan mentioned for Peleg.

Genesis 6:3: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Contradiction with Genesis 5:5

This mentions Adam lived 930 years, different from the lifespan limitations set in Genesis 6:3, which can question Peleg’s extended life in succeeding chapters.

Genesis 5:5: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Contradiction with Psalm 90:10

States the general human lifespan as being 70 to 80 years, quite in contrast to the 209 years Peleg lived after Reu was born.

Psalm 90:10: The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years]
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