Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 7:86

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 7:86 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 7:86. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, the leader who wrote down the story, this verse means that each of the twelve tribes of Israel gave a golden spoon filled with nice-smelling powder as a special gift to God. Altogether, these golden spoons weighed as much as 120 pieces of special money.

Numbers 7:86: The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of incense, [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons [was] an hundred and twenty [shekels].

Contradiction with Numbers 7:84

Numbers 7:86 specifies the total weight of the silver chargers, but the total weight in Numbers 7:84 is different.

Numbers 7:84: This [was] the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

Contradiction with Exodus 38:25-26

These verses explain a different allocation of silver for the service of the tabernacle, contradicting the allocations and weights described in Numbers 7:86.

Exodus 38:25-26: And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation [was] an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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