Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 33:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 33:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 33:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Numbers, this verse tells us about how God's people left a place called Pihahiroth and traveled through the sea to reach a desert called Etham, where they camped at a place named Marah. It shows how God guided and protected them during their journey.

Numbers 33:8: And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

Contradiction with Genesis 15:18

Contradicts Numbers 33:8 by indicating the promised land's boundaries as extending from the river of Egypt, whereas Numbers 33:8 describes crossing the Red Sea.

Genesis 15:18: In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 1:2

Contradicts the travel time implied in Numbers 33:8 by stating it is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, contrasting the extensive wandering.

Deuteronomy 1:2: ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

Contradiction with Exodus 16:1

Contradicts Numbers 33:8 by providing a different timeframe and location sequence for the Israelites' journey in the wilderness of Sin.

Exodus 16:1: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
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