Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 10:11

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 10:11 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 10:11. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse tells us that God was guiding the Israelites on their journey. When the cloud moved, it meant it was time for the people to pack up and follow God to a new place.

Numbers 10:11: And it came to pass on the twentieth [day] of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

Contradiction with Genesis 8:13

This verse refers to the drying up of waters on the first day of the first month, which contradicts the specific timeline in Numbers 10:11.

Genesis 8:13: And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Contradiction with Exodus 13:21

While Numbers 10:11 describes the cloud moving, Exodus 13:21 says the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, implying constant guidance, not just one specific departure.

Exodus 13:21: And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

Contradiction with Numbers 9:21

This verse describes instances when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, contradicting the specific departure date mentioned in Numbers 10:11.

Numbers 9:21: And [so] it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and [that] the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether [it was] by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. [abode: Heb. was]

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 1:3

States the first day of the eleventh month in the fortieth year, a different timeline from the second year, second month in Numbers 10:11.

Deuteronomy 1:3: And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
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