Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 20:4

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 20:4 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 20:4. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, the people were upset and asked why they were brought to a place with no food or water, worrying they might die there. They were feeling scared and unsure about being in the desert.

Numbers 20:4: And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

Contradiction with Genesis 12:1

God's command to Abram to leave his country contradicts the notion of fearing to leave Egypt expressed by the Israelites.

Genesis 12:1: Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Contradiction with Exodus 3:8

God promises to deliver the Israelites to a good and large land, in contrast to the fear and anxiety about being brought to the wilderness.

Exodus 3:8: And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 8:7-9

Describes the promised land as abundant, contradicting the complaint about being brought into the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 8:7-9: For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
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