Errors in Bible translations... (Moses, Earth, Tanakh, Deuteronomy, exodus)

[t3gah]

I remember finding out about these when I was reading my Tanakh. Anyway, the mistakes are in the King James Version bible. They mistakenly thought a term re'em meant 'single horn cow' which in medievel times they rendered as "unicorn" the mythical animal.

Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Numbers 24:8
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] through with his arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:17
His glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are] the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 39:9
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Job 39:10
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalms 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalms 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalms 92:10
But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Isaiah 34:7
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

[Seyorni]

The Bibles full of questionable translation and copy errors.

Eg: The well known "Yam suph" translated as "red Sea." The King James' scholars were unfamiliar with suph. They knew "yam" was "sea", though, and the nearest one was the red sea, so that's what they wrote. The fact that no-one with any knowledge of regional geography would flee across a sandy desert toward an impassable sea apparently didn't bother them.

The only reasonable flight path out of Egypt would have been down the Nile and West around the Mediterranean, toward the rest of the civilized world. The Nile terminates in a sea of reeds (Cyperus papyrus) -- (Hbw: "Suph"). In some places the water rushes out at low tide making passage to the West possible. You have to be quick, though. If not, you -- or a persuing Egyptian army -- will become hopelessly enmired when the tide comes in.

[Jayhawker Soule]

t3gah, is there a point lurking behind the laundry list? I doubt that anyone would deny the existence of translation and variation issues.

[Feathers in Hair]

As a side note, the ads are now getting very odd in this thread. "Meet Unicorn Singles!" one of them is saying. I'm slightly worried.

[Seyorni]

Is it permissible to eat the Unicorn singles?

[t3gah]

Originally Posted by Seyorni

The Bibles full of questionable translation and copy errors.

Eg: The well known "Yam suph" translated as "red Sea." The King James' scholars were unfamiliar with suph. They knew "yam" was "sea", though, and the nearest one was the red sea, so that's what they wrote. The fact that no-one with any knowledge of regional geography would flee across a sandy desert toward an impassable sea apparently didn't bother them.

The only reasonable flight path out of Egypt would have been down the Nile and West around the Mediterranean, toward the rest of the civilized world. The Nile terminates in a sea of reeds (Cyperus papyrus) -- (Hbw: "Suph"). In some places the water rushes out at low tide making passage to the West possible. You have to be quick, though. If not, you -- or a persuing Egyptian army -- will become hopelessly enmired when the tide comes in.

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[t3gah]

Originally Posted by Deut. 32.8

t3gah, is there a point lurking behind the laundry list? I doubt that anyone would deny the existence of translation and variation issues.

Seyorni posted something I and probably lots of other people didn't know. My accounts are like that too. religiousforums.com doesn't really state the type of venue you have to have to start a discussion or generate interest in a topic ...

Learning is a process.

[Seyorni]

The red sea mistranslation -- and dozens of others, have been well known to all biblical scholars for at least a century. When an error is found in a textbook it is corrected in the next edition. Why is this not the case in a book Christians maintain is a thousand times more crucial to the eternal salvation of mankind than Elements of Biology?

[Mister Emu]

As a side note, the ads are now getting very odd in this thread. "Meet Unicorn Singles!" one of them is saying. I'm slightly worried.

I'm more worried about the person writing the ad, he/she says they have "Hot profiles"

[linwood]

Did you know that the New World Translation is Ridden with mistakes as well?

Did you know that the Watchtower refuses to even state who made the translation for them?

Odd huh?