Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 1:43

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 1:43 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 1:43. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, the author of the book, this verse is about counting how many people are in the tribe of Naphtali. There are 53,400 people in that tribe.

Numbers 1:43: Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Naphtali, [were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Contradiction with Numbers 3:39

Contradicts with the total number of Israelites counted, showing differing census results.

Numbers 3:39: All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.

Contradiction with Numbers 1:20-46

Contradicts by providing different tribe numbers than those reported for Reuben in Numbers 1:43.

Numbers 1:20-46: And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Contradiction with Exodus 12:37

Mentions a different number of Israelites coming out of Egypt, contradicting detailed tribe count in Numbers 1:43.

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 Deuteronomy 10:22

States a different overall number of Israelites compared to the specific count in Numbers 1:43.

Deuteronomy 10:22: Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Contradiction with Numbers 26:7

Shows a different census number for the tribe of Reuben than that in Numbers 1:43.

Numbers 26:7: These [are] the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
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