Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 16:27

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 16:27 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 16:27. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God wanted everyone to stay away from Korah, Dathan, and Abiram's tents because they had done something wrong. The families were standing at their tents while everyone else moved far away to be safe.

Numbers 16:27: So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

Contradiction with Numbers 26:11

Numbers 16:27 suggests everyone associated with Korah was punished, but Numbers 26:11 notes the sons of Korah did not die.

Numbers 26:11: Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

Contradiction with Exodus 20:5

Numbers 16:27 involves the punishment of children for their fathers' sins, while Exodus 20:5 suggests children are punished.

Exodus 20:5: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

Contradiction with Ezekiel 18:20

In Numbers 16:27, children suffer for parents' sin, but Ezekiel 18:20 states individuals only bear their own sin.

Ezekiel 18:20: The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Contradiction with 2 Kings 14:6

Numbers 16:27 shows collective family punishment, whereas 2 Kings 14:6 says children should not be put to death for parents' sins.

2 Kings 14:6: But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
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