Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 1:40

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 1:40 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 1:40. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse is talking about counting all the people from the family of Asher who were old enough to be soldiers. They counted everyone 20 years and older who could fight in a war.

Numbers 1:40: Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Contradiction with Numbers 1:46

Contradicts Numbers 1:40 in that it provides a different total number for the census than what might be expected when considering the individual tribal listings, potentially causing confusion in interpretation.

Numbers 1:46: Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Contradiction with Numbers 26:47

Contradicts Numbers 1:40 by providing a different number for the count of the children of Asher at a later time, reflecting the changes and challenges in maintaining consistent tribal numbers.

Numbers 26:47: These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Contradiction with 1 Chronicles 7:40

Appears to contradict Numbers 1:40 in terms of the list of leaders and family heads, which might not match earlier censuses.

1 Chronicles 7:40: All these [were] the children of Asher, heads of [their] father's house, choice [and] mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war [and] to battle [was] twenty and six thousand men.
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