Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 1:41

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 1:41 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 1:41. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, in this part of the Bible, God asked Moses to count the people from different tribes. The tribe of Asher had 41,500 people.

Numbers 1:41: Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.

Contradiction with Exodus 12:37

Numbers 1:41 lists the number specifically as 41,500, but Exodus 12:37 states there were about 600,000 men, not specifying individual tribes.

Exodus 12:37: And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.

Contradiction with Numbers 26:41

Numbers 1:41 records the count as 41,500 for the tribe of Asher, while Numbers 26:41 updates the count to 53,400, showing a difference in recorded numbers.

Numbers 26:41: These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.

Contradiction with 1 Chronicles 7:40

Numbers 1:41 lists warriors as 41,500, but 1 Chronicles 7:40 indicates that Asher had 26,000 men ready for battle, suggesting a lower count.

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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