Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 4:20

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 4:20 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 4:20. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, Jabal was the first person to live in tents and take care of animals like cows and sheep. He is considered the ancestor of people who live in this way.

Genesis 4:20: And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.

Contradiction with Genesis 4:2

Both Abel and Jabal are noted as keepers of sheep, whereas Genesis 4:20 only mentions Jabal.

Genesis 4:2: And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. [Abel: Heb. Hebel] [a keeper: Heb. a feeder]

Contradiction with Genesis 4:17

Cain builds a city, indicating settled life, which contrasts with the nomadic lifestyle implied in Genesis 4:20.

Genesis 4:17: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. [Enoch: Heb. Chanoch]

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 1:9

Suggests that nothing is new under the sun, contrasting with Genesis 4:20 introducing livestock tending.

Ecclesiastes 1:9: The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

Contradiction with Genesis 1:24-26

God creates animals and humans simultaneously, whereas Genesis 4:20 implies a progression or development in animal husbandry.

Genesis 1:24-26: And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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