Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 25:20

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 25:20 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 25:20. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse means that Isaac got married to Rebekah when he was forty years old. Rebekah was from a place called Padanaram and her family was from Syria.

Genesis 25:20: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Contradiction with Genesis 24:3-4

While Genesis 25:20 mentions Rebekah as Isaac's wife from Padan-aram, Genesis 24:3-4 highlights Abraham's desire for Isaac to marry someone from his own kindred, which could be seen as a geographical and familial inconsistency.

Genesis 24:3-4: And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 7:3-4

This verse advises against intermarriage with other nations to prevent turning away from God, contradicting the idea of seeking a wife from outside one's immediate familial region as in Genesis 25:20.

Deuteronomy 7:3-4: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
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