The contradictions are simply the result of textual evolution. The bible is not a single text, but a number of texts combined and convolved.

That is, certain parts of a text are obviously accorded importance by different people at different times, and so the various sections are always included, even if they are from very different original sources.

The "contradictions" are neither accidental nor intentional, but rather circumstantial...they were there in the texts, the texts are holy, so there they are still.

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