In the former part of this division numerous examples have been brought together to prove that the scope of Scripture in one place is not reconcilable with the statement given in another; it now remains to go one step further, and show that one Scripture positively contradicts another. In the former part the passages alluded to are obviously in error; in this part one text will be contrasted with another contradictory text, but it will not be possible to pronounce which is right, or whether both are not equally in fault. It will suffice in many cases simply to set one statement against another statement in separate columns, and leave the reader to form his own judgment; but in some few instances a remark or two will be given to point out the scope of the error to which attention is directed. Gen. vi., 19, 20. Gen. vii., 2. The direction given by God to This plain, positive direction is Noah was—“Of every living thing altered in the very next chapter, of _all flesh_, two of every sort and a distinction is made between shalt thou bring into the ark clean and unclean animals: “Of . . . they shall be male and [its] every clean beast thou shalt take female; of fowls after their to thee by _sevens_, the male and kind, and of cattle after their his female.” kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, _two of Seven pairs (or 14 animals) is a every sort_ shall come unto thee very wide deviation from the to keep them alive.” direction, two only of every sort shall be taken into the ark to Nothing can be more explicit. It keep them alive. is even expressly said that the _cattle_ were not to exceed two; it was to be two “of _all_ flesh;” two of “every sort.” Gen. xlvi., 27; Deut. x., 22. Acts, vii., 14. In the books of Moses we are more By what authority does the martyr than once told that all the souls Stephen increase this positive of the house of Jacob which came assertion by the addition of five into Egypt were “three score and more? saying “all the kindred [of ten.” Jacob which came into Egypt] were three score and 15 souls.” We read in Gen. xlvi., 26, that the number, exclusive of Joseph and his two sons, who were already in Egypt, and of Jacob himself, the founder of the race, “all the souls were three score and six;” but including these four, the number amounted to “three score and ten.” By adding together the names set down in Gen. xlvi., 15, 18, 22, 25, it will be found that the number amounts to 70; the five, therefore, added by Stephen, had no existence. 1 Sam., xxx., 1–10, 17. 1 Chron., xii., 20–22.