Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 2:32

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 2:32 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 2:32. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse is about counting all the people in the Israelite families, showing a big number of them ready to set up their camps. It's like saying there were lots of people getting ready to move and travel together.

Numbers 2:32: These [are] those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts [were] six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Contradiction with Acts 1:15

Numbers 2:32 lists the number of men able to go to war from the tribes of Israel while Acts 1:15 presents a much smaller group assembling after Jesus' ascension.

Acts 1:15: And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Contradiction with Exodus 12:37

Numbers 2:32 counts the warriors at 603,550, but Exodus 12:37 states about 600,000 men left Egypt, suggesting a discrepancy in the count.

Exodus 12:37: And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.

Contradiction with Genesis 46:27

Numbers 2:32 records a large number of Israelites, in contrast to Genesis 46:27 which indicates only 70 members of Jacob's family went to Egypt.

Genesis 46:27: And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were] threescore and ten.

Contradiction with Judges 7:7

Numbers 2:32 counts a vast number of fighting men, whereas Judges 7:7 tells of Gideon's much reduced army of 300.

Judges 7:7: And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.
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