Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 4:46

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 4:46 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 4:46. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to tradition, Moses helped count all the men from the Levite families with the help of Aaron and the leaders. These Levites had special jobs to help take care of important things for God.

Numbers 4:46: All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

Contradiction with Numbers 1:49

Numbers 1:49 states that the Levites were not to be numbered among the children of Israel, contradicting Numbers 4:46 which lists the numbering of the Levites.

Numbers 1:49: Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

Contradiction with Numbers 3:16-17

Numbers 3:16-17 describes Moses numbering the sons of Levi according to God’s command, which aligns with Numbers 4:46, but the prior mentioned instructions to exclude Levites create an apparent contradiction.

Numbers 3:16-17: And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. [word: Heb. mouth]

Contradiction with Numbers 26:62

Numbers 26:62 specifies that Levites were numbered from one month old and upward, differing in focus from Numbers 4:46 which refers to those from 30 to 50 years old.

Numbers 26:62: And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
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