re: Catholic/Protestant Debate

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Heck, I was not even aware of this contradiction in the Old Testament!

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I find it fascinating. I’m assuming you are referring to David/Elhannan and Goliath. In 1 Chronicles 20:5, just a couple characters gets changed and it changes it from:
Elhannan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed Goliath…
To…
Elhannan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath…
The word order gets flipped around for English syntax, but in Hebrew transliteration “bethalahmi” (Bethlehemite) is changed to “lahmiahi” (Lahmi, brother of). They changed the word Bethlehemite to Lahmi brother of by changing and moving like 3 characters, so now the reader thinks instead of Jair being from the town of Bethlehem, the one being killed is Goliath’s brother named “lehemite”.