Problem: Exodus 18:25 declares that “Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people.” However, here Moses told the people to choose their own judges (Deut. 1:13).
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Month: June 2019
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Deuteronomy 1:6ff—How could any from the former generation be present when they all died in the wilderness?
Problem: According to Numbers 26:64–65, all the unbelieving generation of Israelites died in the wilderness, with “not a man of those who were numbered by Moses” remaining to go into the Promised Land. However, when Moses spoke to the people at the end of the wanderings he referred repeatedly to their being witnesses to what happened before the wanderings (cf. Deut. 1:6, 9, 14; 5:2, 5; 11:2, 7).
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Deuteronomy 1:1—How could Moses have written this when biblical criticism claims it was written many centuries later?
Problem: According to this verse, “these are the words which Moses spoke.” However, many biblical critics claim that Deuteronomy was written in the third century b.c., many centuries after Moses’ time.