Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 2:14

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 2:14 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 2:14. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the Book of Numbers, this verse tells about the tribe of Gad, which is one of the groups of people in Israel. A man named Eliasaph, who is the son of Reuel, is chosen to be their leader.

Numbers 2:14: Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Reuel. [Reuel: also called, Deuel]

Contradiction with Numbers 2:16

This verse provides a single contradiction by stating the total of the camp of Reuben, which includes the tribe of Gad that Numbers 2:14 mentions separately.

Numbers 2:16: All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.

Contradiction with Numbers 1:24

Lists a different count for the tribe of Gad's men able to go to war compared to the count given in Numbers 2:14.

Numbers 1:24: Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
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