@futurebird@not2b Yep. Once you realize and accept that it's not divinely dictated and merely transcribed exactly word for word but just merely human texts like any other human texts all that begins to make a whole lot more sense.
And as you say, it has also been translated, revised, etc etc. Actually, one thing always bugged me about that. Why did they never just sort of subtly correct the contradictions? Bit by bit in ways that would be excused away as ok of course.