Contradictions and Paradoxes in Leviticus 26:42

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Leviticus 26:42 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Leviticus 26:42. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God is telling the people that He will remember the special promises He made to their ancestors Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. God is also saying that He will take care of the land He promised them.

Leviticus 26:42: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Contradiction with Numbers 23:19

This verse states that God does not lie or change His mind, which might contradict Leviticus 26:42's implication of a conditional remembrance based on obedience.

Numbers 23:19: God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Contradiction with Psalm 89:34

This verse mentions that God will not break His covenant nor alter His promise, which can contradict the conditional nature of remembering the covenant in Leviticus 26:42.

Psalm 89:34: My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Contradiction with Hebrews 8:13

This verse suggests the old covenant is obsolete, contrasting with Leviticus 26:42's emphasis on remembering an everlasting covenant.

Hebrews 8:13: In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.

Contradiction with Galatians 3:17

This verse implies the law does not disannul the covenant made with Abraham, contrasting the conditional aspect in Leviticus 26:42.

Galatians 3:17: And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Contradiction with Ezekiel 18:21-22

These verses suggest that God forgets past transgressions upon repentance, differing from Leviticus 26:42, which ties remembrance of the covenant to obedience.

Ezekiel 18:21-22: But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
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