Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 11:30

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 11:30 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 11:30. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, Sarai couldn't have any children, even though she really wanted to be a mom. It was a very sad and important part of her story.

Genesis 11:30: But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.

Contradiction with Genesis 21:1-2

This verse describes the birth of Isaac to Sarah, which is a contradiction because Genesis 11:30 states that Sarah was barren and had no child.

Genesis 21:1-2: And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Contradiction with Genesis 18:10

This verse contradicts Genesis 11:30 because it promises that Sarah will have a son, despite her previous state of being barren.

Genesis 18:10: And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him.

Contradiction with Romans 4:19

This verse highlights the deadness of Sarah's womb, yet it leads to the fulfillment of the promise of a child, contradicting her barrenness in Genesis 11:30.

Romans 4:19: And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

Contradiction with Hebrews 11:11

This verse indicates that Sarah received strength to conceive a child, contradicting her earlier barrenness mentioned in Genesis 11:30.

Hebrews 11:11: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
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