Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 29:18

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 29:18 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 29:18. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God told the people to bring the right amount of food and drink to share with Him. Each animal needed its own special offering, so everyone had to bring just the right amount.

Numbers 29:18: And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:

Contradiction with Leviticus 23:18

This verse specifies a different number of lambs in the sacrificial offerings for the feast.

Leviticus 23:18: And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.

Contradiction with Numbers 28:27

This verse outlines a different offering during the same feast compared to the offering in Numbers 29:18.

Numbers 28:27: But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 15:22

Emphasizes that obedience is more important to God than burnt offerings and sacrifices, contrasting with the focus on sacrifices in Numbers 29:18.

1 Samuel 15:22: And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.

Contradiction with Isaiah 1:11

Suggests that God does not delight in burnt offerings, which contradicts the specified offerings in Numbers 29:18.

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]
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