Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 20:18

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 20:18 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 20:18. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Genesis, God made it so that no women in Abimelech's house could have babies because Abimelech had taken Sarah, who was Abraham's wife. This happened to show that taking someone else's wife was not okay.

Genesis 20:18: For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

Contradiction with Genesis 1:28

Contradicts Genesis 20:18, as this verse emphasizes the blessing of fruitfulness and multiplying, whereas Genesis 20:18 depicts a situation where wombs were closed and prevented from bearing children.

Genesis 1:28: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. [moveth: Heb. creepeth]
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