Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 19:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 19:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 19:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse is about following special rules that God gave to make sure people stay clean and pure. Eleazar the priest has to help with these rules by taking a cow outside the camp so it can be prepared in a way God said was important.

Numbers 19:3: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her before his face:

Contradiction with 1 Chronicles 28:2

David declares that the temple should be built where the Ark resides instead of outside the camp.

1 Chronicles 28:2: Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Contradiction with John 4:21

Jesus discusses worship being spiritual and not tied to physical locations, unlike the physical sacrificing outside the camp.

John 4:21: Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

Contradiction with Hebrews 13:11-12

Christ's sacrifice fulfilled the requirement of sacrifices outside the camp, rendering the old law of Numbers 19:3 obsolete.

Hebrews 13:11-12: For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
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