Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 29:14

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 29:14 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 29:14. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Numbers, this verse is about giving a special gift to God by using flour mixed with oil when they make a big meal for Him. The flour and oil were given in just the right amount for each animal that they offered.

Numbers 29:14: And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,

Contradiction with Exodus 29:40

This verse mentions a different measurement for the tenth deal of flour and different required offerings in the daily sacrifice compared to Numbers 29:14.

Exodus 29:40: And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine [for] a drink offering.

Contradiction with Leviticus 2:6

This verse describes a different preparation method for the grain offering compared to the specific instructions in Numbers 29:14.

Leviticus 2:6: Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it [is] a meat offering.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 16:17

This verse emphasizes giving according to what one can afford, which may contradict the specific and high quantity requirements of sacrifices in Numbers 29:14.

Deuteronomy 16:17: Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. [as...: Heb. according to the gift of his hand]

Contradiction with Hebrews 10:1

This verse implies that the law, including offerings and sacrifices as referenced in Numbers 29, is merely a shadow and not the true form of the good things, suggesting a theological shift from precise sacrificial details.

Hebrews 10:1: For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Contradiction with Psalm 40:6

This verse indicates God’s preference for obedience over sacrifices, which may contradict the detailed sacrificial requirements in Numbers 29:14.

Psalm 40:6: Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. [opened: Heb. digged]

Contradiction with Hosea 6:6

This verse states a preference for mercy over sacrifice, contradicting the detailed and obligatory sacrifices instructed in Numbers 29:14.

Hosea 6:6: For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Contradiction with Isaiah 1:11

This verse questions the value of the multitude of sacrifices, suggesting a contradiction to the necessity detailed in Numbers 29:14.

Isaiah 1:11: To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. [he goats: Heb. great he goats]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 7:22-23

This verse suggests that God did not initially speak of sacrifices when bringing His people out of Egypt, which could contradict the later prescriptions such as those in Numbers 29:14.

Jeremiah 7:22-23: For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: [concerning: Heb. concerning the matter of]
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