The tension: Genesis 7:17 says the flood was on the earth for forty days, while Genesis 7:24 and 8:3 say the waters prevailed for a hundred and fifty days.
The tension: Genesis 8:4 has the ark resting on Ararat in the seventh month, while Genesis 8:5 says the mountaintops only became visible in the tenth month.
The tension: The Bible gives three different answers to how long Israel was in Egypt: 400 years in Genesis 15:13 and Acts 7:6, four generations in Genesis 15:16, and 430 ye…
The tension: Genesis 22:2 calls Isaac Abraham's "only son" — at the moment when Ishmael is already thirteen years old and demonstrably alive, and when Genesis 25 is about t…
The tension: Genesis 15:16 promises Abraham's descendants will return to Canaan "in the fourth generation." But when you actually trace the genealogy Genesis and Exodus giv…
The tension: Genesis 21:14-18 describes Hagar carrying Ishmael on her shoulder, laying "the child" under a shrub, and being told to lift up "the lad" — infant language.
The tension: Judah tells Joseph in Genesis 44:20 that Benjamin is "a little one," "a child of his old age" who "cannot leave his father." Two chapters later, Genesis 46:21…
The tension: Genesis 46:9-15a enumerates 32 Leah-descendants by name — Reuben and his four sons, Simeon and his six sons, Levi and his three sons, Judah plus his sons and t…
The tension: Deuteronomy 23:2 bars the offspring of an illegitimate union from the assembly of YHWH for ten generations, but the genealogies of David in Matthew 1 and Luke…
