If you pay close attention to who are being addressed in these verses, THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION!
·
7:127 The people of Pharaoh
tells him “will you allow Moses…to abandon you and your (Pharaoh’s) gods
(plural)?
· 28:38 Pharaoh declared, “O
chiefs! I know of no other god for you (chiefs) but myself. So bake bricks out
of clay for me, O Hamân, and build a high tower so I may look at the God of
Moses, although I am sure he is a liar.”
If you even look at 28:38 closely
you will understand that Pharaoh is admitting with little confusion that there
can be a god for Moses too in heaven. That’s why he is commanding to build a
tower to nullify the claim of Moses with certainty. So even in this verse, he
is NOT negating the possibility of having multiple gods in realm of heaven.
The
Egyptians believed their pharaoh to be the mediator between the gods (plural) and
the world of men. After death the pharaoh became divine, identified
with Osiris, the father of Horus and god of the dead, and passed on his
sacred powers and position to the new pharaoh, his son. [1]
So in 7:127 when multiple gods
are mentioned it is talking about multiple gods in heaven who has appointed
Pharaoh as representative. That's why the chiefs are saying Pharaoh that “Will
you allow Moses to abandon YOU (Pharaoh) and YOUR GODS (Pharaoh's god)?
But for the chiefs, Pharaoh is
the appointed god on earth. That’s why he is saying in 28:38 that, I don't know
any god for you (chief) besides me.
Footnotes [1] pharaoh |
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