The tension: Exodus, Leviticus, and Nehemiah consistently name Mount Sinai as the mountain of revelation (Exod 31:18, 34:4, 34:32, Lev 26:46, 27:34, Neh 9:13).
The tension: Exodus 33, Deuteronomy 7 and 31, and Joshua 1, 3, 17, and 21 all promise or declare total victory — God will drive out every Canaanite nation, no one will stan…
The tension: Exodus 34:1 has YHWH explicitly saying "I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables." Deuteronomy 10:4 confirms "he wrote on the tab…
The tension: Numbers 1:48-49 records YHWH explicitly telling Moses NOT to number the tribe of Levi among the children of Israel, and Numbers 2:33 confirms the Levites were…
The tension: Deuteronomy 31:9 and 1:1 attribute the Mosaic law to Moses, and the historical Christian and Jewish position has been Mosaic authorship of the entire Pentateuc…
The tension: Numbers 20:7-12 says YHWH barred Moses and Aaron from the promised land because Moses struck the rock at Meribah twice instead of speaking to it as commanded —…
The tension: Numbers 23-24 tells the story straight: Balaam was hired to curse Israel, but each time he opened his mouth God forced blessings out instead.
The tension: Numbers 16:27-33 describes the earth opening and swallowing Korah, Dathan, Abiram, their wives, sons, and little children, with the families perishing alive.
The tension: Numbers 31:7 reports the Israelites killed all the males of Midian, and verses 17-18 instruct them to kill every remaining male child plus every non-virgin wom…
The tension: Numbers 12:3 famously calls Moses 'very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.' Numbers 31:14-18 has Moses raging at his officers for s…
The tension: Deuteronomy 5:2-4 says Yahweh spoke to the Israelites at Horeb 'face to face out of the midst of the fire.' Deuteronomy 4:12, two chapters earlier in the same…
The tension: Deuteronomy 23:3 and Nehemiah 13:1 explicitly forbid Moabites from ever entering the assembly of YHWH, but the book of Ruth makes a Moabite woman the great-gra…
The tension: Deuteronomy 34:7 says Moses' eye was not dim and his natural force was not abated when he died at 120, but Deuteronomy 31:2 — three chapters earlier — has Mose…
The tension: Joshua 4:20 says the twelve stones taken out of the Jordan were set up at Gilgal, but Joshua 4:9 — fifteen verses earlier — says the twelve stones were set up…
The tension: Joshua 8:28 says Joshua burned Ai and made it "an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day," but Nehemiah 7:32 lists 123 men of Bethel and Ai among those…
The tension: Joshua 10:12-13 narrates the sun and moon standing still for about a full day so Joshua could finish slaughtering the Amorites, while Genesis 8:22 has YHWH pro…
