For example, Genesis chapter 1 tells us that the first man and the first woman were made at the same time, and after the animals. Genesis chapter 1 states that the fruit trees were created before man, but chapter 2 indicates that the fruit trees were created after man.
Contradictions also abound in the biblical account of a worldwide flood.
The Old Testament also contains a significant contradiction in the story of the census taken by King David and God's subsequent punishment of the Israelites. According to the story, God was so angered by the census that he sent a plague that killed seventy thousand men. In addition, there is a contradiction regarding the question of whether God punishes children for the sins of their parents. Moreover, the Old Testament is contradictory as to whether the Lord commanded the Israelites to sacrifice animals to him. Turning to the New Testament, there are contradictions between the genealogy of Jesus as set forth in the first chapter of Matthew and the genealogy given in the third chapter of Luke.