(DAVE 4/21) Farrell: You're right, there looks to be a discrepancy.
Although in Numbers it says "from Benejaaken" and in Dueteronomy it refers
to the "wells of the Jaakenites" and not "Benejaaken" itself. Otherwise, I
don't know an explanation If there is one). Is the "Benejaaken" in
Numbers exactly the same place as the "wells of the Jaakenites" in
Deuteronomy? Is "Canada" the same place as the "wells of Canada" (oil) in
Sudan? Again, I don't know. I can't refute anything you are saying. But
am still waiting for you to show how, in fact, this IS a contradiction.
Since you know very little, if anything, about where these places were.
TILL
I don't have to know where these places were located in order to know that
there is a discrepancy when one text says that the Israelites left Moserah
and traveled to Benejaakan, whereas another text says that they left
Benejaakan and traveled to Moserah.
Was Benejaakan the same place as Beeroth (wells) Benejaakan (sons of
Jaaken)? Well, please notice that the text in Numbers 33:31 that says that
the Israelites traveled to Benejaakan is in the context that reported
Aarpm's death, and the text that says that the Israelites traveled to
Beeroth Benejaakan is also in a context that reported Aaron's death. So
what is the likelihood that Benejaakan was not the same place as Beeroth
Benejaakan?
Besides this, you have other discrepancies in the place names of the
Israelite encampments, but Darrel has already posted this problem. Why
don't you try to address it?
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net