Acts 7

Alleged Discrepancies/Contradictions

75 years old or 135 years old?

Then he [Abraham] left the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God had him move from there to this country in which you are now living. (Acts 7:4)So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. (Gen. 12:4)

Gen. 11:26 - When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Gen. 11:32 - The days of Terah were two hundred five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Terah 70 years old, Abraham born

Terah 205 years old,Abraham 135

Moses & Aaron –Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites. (Exodus 4:29) 67x

Shem, Ham & Japheth –After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Gen. 5:10) 6x

Terah 130 years old,Abraham born

Terah 205 years old,Abraham 75

75 people or 70 people?

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all. (Acts 7:14)The children of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. (Gen. 46:27)

Abraham or Jacob?

…so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors, and their bodies were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. (Acts 7:15-16)The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. (Joshua 24:32)

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant. Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock. And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?” He said, “These seven ewe lambs you shall accept from my hand, in order that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.” (Gen. 21:27-30)

They said, “We see plainly that the LORD has been with you [Isaac]; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you so that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.” So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths; and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. (Gen. 26:28-31)

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. (Gen. 12:6-7)

Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city. And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for one hundred pieces of money the plot of land on which he had pitched his tent. There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel. (Gen. 33:18-20)

Raiphan or Kaiwan?

…you took along the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Raiphan, the images that you made to worship. (Acts 7:43)You shall take up Sakkut your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves. (Amos 5:26)

Elephantine Island

Elephantine Papyri

Kaph (K) Resh (R)

Waw (W) Pe (P, Ph)

N – W – Y – K  N – P – Y – R 

K Y W N

K a Y W a N

R Y Ph N

R a Y Ph a N

Amos 5:26

Kaiwan

Acts 7:43

Raiphan