Contradictions
Leviticus
Old Testament · questions that cite Leviticus.
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These marks echo where critical scholarship tends to land on each question — not GEBible’s own ruling.
Seen as a contradiction
Genuinely disputed
Seen as reconciled
Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: Deuteronomy 13:6-10 commands the execution by stoning of any family member who entices Israel to follow other gods.
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: Leviticus 20:10 commands the execution of both the adulterer and the adulteress.
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Usually considered reconciled
Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled
The tension: Leviticus 20:13 prescribes the death penalty for male same-sex intercourse.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Leviticus 15:24 says a man who has sex with a menstruating woman is unclean for seven days, with no further consequence.
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: John 3:16 says God so loved the world, and 1 John 4:8 and 4:16 declare God is love.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Deuteronomy 23:1 explicitly bars anyone with crushed testicles or a severed penis from the assembly of YHWH.
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: Leviticus 24:19-20 codifies the lex talionis: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, breach for breach.
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: The Torah, prophets, and Wisdom literature relentlessly command fear of YHWH — Deuteronomy 6:13, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 9:10, Matthew 10:28, and Hebrews…
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Usually considered reconciled
Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled
The tension: The Bible names at least six different sins as the reason Sodom was destroyed: same-sex intercourse (Leviticus 18:22 read into Ezekiel 16:50), inhospitality (M…
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: Leviticus 19:26 and Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ban divination and observing 'times' — language traditionally read to include astrology — and call practitioners an ab…
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Usually considered reconciled
Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled
The tension: The Pentateuchal legal codes prescribe death by stoning, burning, or general execution for an enormous range of offenses: murder (Gen 9:6; Num 35:30), striking…
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Leviticus 11:6 declares the hare unclean because it "cheweth the cud" but does not divide the hoof.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Deuteronomy 25:5 not only permits but commands a man to marry his deceased brother's childless widow — the institution of levirate marriage (Hebrew yibbum), wi…
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