Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 3:22

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 3:22 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 3:22. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Numbers, this verse is telling us that there were 7,500 males who were one month old or older in a special family group among the Israelites. It helps everyone know how many people were in this group for important jobs and ceremonies.

Numbers 3:22: Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were numbered of them [were] seven thousand and five hundred.

Contradiction with Numbers 3:39

Numbers 3:22 mentions the number of the Gershonites, while Numbers 3:39 provides the total count for all Levites, which might seem inconsistent if considering the counts of other clans collectively.

Numbers 3:39: All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.

Contradiction with Numbers 4:2-3

While Numbers 3:22 lists the number of the Gershonites specifically, Numbers 4:2-3 only identifies men of service age from each group, implying indirect considerations of entirely different numbers for service.

Numbers 4:2-3: Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
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