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Scripture Analysis

Numbers 34:2

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“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),

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Contradictions (1)

Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.

  • What are the borders of Israel?

    The Bible draws the borders of the Promised Land at least three different ways. Genesis 15:18 and Exodus 23:31 stretch from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates; Numbers 34 carves out a much smaller box basically the size of Canaan; and Ezekiel 47 draws a third map with Damascus on the northern edge and the Dead Sea region to the south.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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