There are contradictions in the Bible (Tanach) for the works were transmitted from this generation to that generation for hundreds of years. Errors were inevitable. And there were words that whose translation proved difficult for various reasons. Someday, at a later time, I will give a list.Personnally, I don't think these threads are successful for we are not they and we don't have the ability to ask the author or authors their reasonings.
The Talmud, which is the oral transmitted teachings of the Jews written down (Mishnah) and given commentary (Gemara), are the closest that we have as a people to the reasonings of the author or authors of the Tanach. (The Christians didn't attempt to write the underlying reasons, from the original author or authors' viewpoints, for these individual works for many decades or centuries after the Talmud. And at that time in their history, the Christians were a separate religion from Judaism with a political and social agenda.)
And this doesn't help in all cases for the different Rabbis and Ravs could divine many interpretations from a single verse or set of verses. And a few of the words of the Tanach were impossible for these later scholars to comprehend.
Speaking at a different note, I find that when people attempt to comprehend the Tanach, they dismiss the Talmud. The Talmud is as important, perhaps more important then the Tanach, in that we can glean an understanding of Jesus and the larger community of Jews' world from the Rise of the Second Temple to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
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