Bible Contradiction? Were Naaman and Ard the sons or the grandsons of Benjamin?

 

For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: Were Naaman and Ard the sons or the grandsons of Benjamin?

Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes indicate a Bible contradiction:

They were the sons of Benjamin.

“The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.” (Genesis 46:21)

They were the grandsons of Benjamin.

“The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.” (Numbers 26:40)

(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)

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