Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 29:37

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 29:37 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 29:37. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God wanted the people to give specific food and drink gifts with the animals they offered to show their love and respect. Each animal needed its own special gifts to make God happy.

Numbers 29:37: Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:

Contradiction with Amos 5:21

This verse expresses God's disdain for feasts and offerings, contrasting the specific burnt offerings commanded in Numbers 29:37.

Amos 5:21: I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. [in...: or, your holy days]

Contradiction with Isaiah 1:11

Here, God questions the value of sacrifices, which contradicts the emphasis on them in Numbers 29:37.

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 Hosea 6:6

This verse values mercy over sacrifice, opposing the sacrificial command in Numbers 29:37.

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

Contradiction with Psalm 51:16

It states God does not delight in sacrifice, differing from the prescriptions of sacrifice in Numbers 29:37.

Psalm 51:16: For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt offering. [else...: or, that I should]

Contradiction with Micah 6:6-8

Emphasizes justice and mercy over burnt offerings, contrasting the detailed offerings in Numbers 29:37.

Micah 6:6-8: Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? [of a...: Heb. sons of a year?]
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