Has anyone investigated the apparent discrepancy between Exodus chapters 16 to 18 and Numbers chapter 11?
On face value we have parallel accounts of two events but an apparent scribal (priestly) redaction of a third (assuming these accounts are of the same chronological events).
Also there is a contradictory time differential wherein the parallel events of Numbers 11 occurred after 26 months of exile, whereas the parallel events of the book of Exodus occurred within a couple of months of the commencement of the exile.
On face value we have parallel accounts of two events but an apparent scribal (priestly) redaction of a third (assuming these accounts are of the same chronological events).
Also there is a contradictory time differential wherein the parallel events of Numbers 11 occurred after 26 months of exile, whereas the parallel events of the book of Exodus occurred within a couple of months of the commencement of the exile.
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