The tension: Genesis 7:21-23 insists that every living thing outside the ark perished, yet Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33 have the Nephilim — the giant offspring of the 'son…
The tension: Hebrews 11:11 puts Sarah in the faith hall of fame — "through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive." Genesis 18:10-15 shows Sarah laughing at…
The tension: Genesis 32 has Jacob wrestling "a man" at the Jabbok, after which Jacob insists he has "seen God face to face" and names the place Peniel.
The tension: Genesis 37:28 says the Midianite merchants drew Joseph out of the pit, sold him to the Ishmaelites, and the Ishmaelites brought him to Egypt — a position Genes…
The tension: The Hebrew Bible and New Testament preserve six different lists of the "twelve tribes" of Israel — Gen 49, Num 1, Num 13, Deut 33, Ezek 48, Rev 7 — and no two…
The tension: Genesis 50:13 has Jacob's sons carrying him into Canaan and burying him in the cave of Machpelah near Hebron, the family tomb purchased by Abraham.
The tension: Exodus 4:10 has Moses himself telling YHWH he is not eloquent and is "slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" — the whole reason Aaron gets attached to the missi…
The tension: Exodus 9:3-6 (the fifth plague, the murrain — the question's "sixth" is wrong) says "all the cattle of Egypt died." Three verses later at Exodus 9:19, God is w…
The tension: 1 Kings 8:9 and 2 Chronicles 5:10 both state flatly that when Solomon brought the ark into the temple, "there was nothing in the ark save the two tables of sto…
The tension: Exodus 17:1-7 locates the water-from-rock miracle at Rephidim in the wilderness of Sin ("the rock in Horeb"), with Moses naming the place Massah and Meribah.
