Are there any more errors in the KJV that I might need to know about?

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It’s for my research paper. I’m looking for sites and sources that criticize certain Bible versions used by fundamentalists (the KJV in particular)

I’ve read the Bible Translation Guide but is it all right if I ask for more errors found in the KJV? :o
 
Which version of KJV? There are so many publishing errors in the KJV that they have named each version error with its own descriptive name of the error.

In various publishing errors of the King James Version of the Bible, some of the more famous blunders have been given their own names. Among them are:
  • The Blasphemous Comma Several editions: Part of Luke 23 reads “And there were also two other malefactors. [crucified with Jesus]” It should have read “And there were also two other, malefactors.”
  • “Judas Bible” 1611: This Bible has Judas, not Jesus, saying “Sit ye here while I go yonder and pray.” (Matthew 26:36)
  • “Wicked Bible”, “Adulterous Bible” or “Sinner’s Bible” 1631: Barker and Lucas: Omits an important “not” from Exodus 20:14, making the seventh commandment read “Thou shalt commit adultery.” The printers were fined £300 (a lifetime’s wages) and most of the copies were recalled immediately. Only 11 copies are known to exist today.
  • “More Sea Bible” 1641 “…the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was more sea.” rather than “…the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea.” (Revelation 21:1)
  • “Unrighteous Bible” or “Wicked Bible” 1653: Cambridge Press: Another edition carrying this title omits a “not” before the word “inherit”, making I Corinthians 6:9 read “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God?..” In addition, Romans 6:13 reads “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of righteousness into sin…” where it should read “unrighteousness”. Also, in Exodus 20:14 it omits a “not” in the seventh commandment so it says, “thou shalt commit adultery.”
  • “Printers Bible” bef. 1702: Psalm 119:161 reads “Printers have persecuted me without cause.” The first word was changed, possibly by a disgruntled typesetter, from “Princes”.
  • “Sin On Bible”: 1716: John 8:11 reads “Go and sin on more” rather than “Go and sin no more”.
  • “Vinegar Bible”: 1717: J. Baskett, Clarendon Press: The chapter heading for Luke 20 reads “The Parable of the Vinegar” instead of “The Parable of the Vineyard.” One reviewer called this particular edition “a Baskett full of errors,” what with its being replete with numerous other specimens of typographical errata throughout.
  • “The Fools Bible”: 1763: Psalm 14:1 reads “the fool hath said in his heart there is a God”, rather than “…there is no God”. The printers were fined three thousand pounds and all copies ordered destroyed.
  • “Denial Bible”: 1792: The name Philip is substituted for Peter as the apostle who would deny Jesus in Luke 22:34.
  • “Murderer’s Bible” 1801: “Murmurers” is printed as “murderers”, making Jude 16 read: “These are murderers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”
  • “Lions Bible” 1804: 1 Kings 8:19 reads “thy son that shall come forth out of thy lions”, rather than “loins”. This edition had another error in Numbers 25:18 which read: “The murderer shall surely be put together” rather than “…put to death”.
  • “To-remain Bible” 1805: In Galatians 4:29 a proof-reader had written in “to remain” in the margin, as an answer to whether a comma should be deleted. The note inadvertently became part of the text, making the edition read “But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit to remain, even so it is now.”
  • “Discharge Bible” 1806: “Discharge” replaces “charge” making I Timothy 5:21 read “I discharge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.”
  • “Standing Fishes Bible” 1806: “Fishes” replaced “fishers” making Ezekiel 47:10 read “And it shall come to pass, that the fishes shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.”
  • “Idle Shepherd” 1809: Zechariah 11:17 reads “the idle shepherd” rather than “idol shepherd”.
  • “Ears To Ear Bible” 1810: Edition which makes Matthew 13:43 read: “…Who has ears to ear, let him hear.” The correct phrase should be “ears to hear”.
  • “Wife-hater Bible” 1810: “Wife” replaces “life” in this edition, making Luke 14:26 redundantly read “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own wife also, he cannot be my disciple.”
  • “The Large Family Bible” 1820: Isaiah 66:9 reads: “Shall I bring to birth and not cease to bring forth?” rather than “Shall I bring to birth and not cause to bring forth?”.
  • “Rebecca’s Camels Bible” 1823: “Camels” replaces “damsels” in one instance, making Genesis 24:61 read “And Rebecca arose, and her camels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebecca and went his way.”
  • “Owl Bible” 1944: “Owl” replaces “own”, making 1 Peter 3:5 read, “For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their owl husbands.” The error was caused by a printing plate with a damaged letter n.
More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_errata

James
 
CentralFLJames said:
Which version of KJV? There are so many publishing errors in the KJV that they have named each version error with its own descriptive name of the error.

In various publishing errors of the King James Version of the Bible, some of the more famous blunders have been given their own names. Among them are:
  • The Blasphemous Comma Several editions: Part of Luke 23 reads “And there were also two other malefactors. [crucified with Jesus]” It should have read “And there were also two other, malefactors.”
  • “Judas Bible” 1611: This Bible has Judas, not Jesus, saying “Sit ye here while I go yonder and pray.” (Matthew 26:36)
  • “Wicked Bible”, “Adulterous Bible” or “Sinner’s Bible” 1631: Barker and Lucas: Omits an important “not” from Exodus 20:14, making the seventh commandment read “Thou shalt commit adultery.” The printers were fined £300 (a lifetime’s wages) and most of the copies were recalled immediately. Only 11 copies are known to exist today.
  • “More Sea Bible” 1641 “…the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was more sea.” rather than “…the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea.” (Revelation 21:1)
  • “Unrighteous Bible” or “Wicked Bible” 1653: Cambridge Press: Another edition carrying this title omits a “not” before the word “inherit”, making I Corinthians 6:9 read “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God?..” In addition, Romans 6:13 reads “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of righteousness into sin…” where it should read “unrighteousness”. Also, in Exodus 20:14 it omits a “not” in the seventh commandment so it says, “thou shalt commit adultery.”
  • “Printers Bible” bef. 1702: Psalm 119:161 reads “Printers have persecuted me without cause.” The first word was changed, possibly by a disgruntled typesetter, from “Princes”.
  • “Sin On Bible”: 1716: John 8:11 reads “Go and sin on more” rather than “Go and sin no more”.
  • “Vinegar Bible”: 1717: J. Baskett, Clarendon Press: The chapter heading for Luke 20 reads “The Parable of the Vinegar” instead of “The Parable of the Vineyard.” One reviewer called this particular edition “a Baskett full of errors,” what with its being replete with numerous other specimens of typographical errata throughout.
  • “The Fools Bible”: 1763: Psalm 14:1 reads “the fool hath said in his heart there is a God”, rather than “…there is no God”. The printers were fined three thousand pounds and all copies ordered destroyed.
  • “Denial Bible”: 1792: The name Philip is substituted for Peter as the apostle who would deny Jesus in Luke 22:34.
  • “Murderer’s Bible” 1801: “Murmurers” is printed as “murderers”, making Jude 16 read: “These are murderers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”
  • “Lions Bible” 1804: 1 Kings 8:19 reads “thy son that shall come forth out of thy lions”, rather than “loins”. This edition had another error in Numbers 25:18 which read: “The murderer shall surely be put together” rather than “…put to death”.
  • “To-remain Bible” 1805: In Galatians 4:29 a proof-reader had written in “to remain” in the margin, as an answer to whether a comma should be deleted. The note inadvertently became part of the text, making the edition read “But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit to remain, even so it is now.”
  • “Discharge Bible” 1806: “Discharge” replaces “charge” making I Timothy 5:21 read “I discharge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.”
  • “Standing Fishes Bible” 1806: “Fishes” replaced “fishers” making Ezekiel 47:10 read “And it shall come to pass, that the fishes shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.”
  • “Idle Shepherd” 1809: Zechariah 11:17 reads “the idle shepherd” rather than “idol shepherd”.
  • “Ears To Ear Bible” 1810: Edition which makes Matthew 13:43 read: “…Who has ears to ear, let him hear.” The correct phrase should be “ears to hear”.
  • “Wife-hater Bible” 1810: “Wife” replaces “life” in this edition, making Luke 14:26 redundantly read “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own wife also, he cannot be my disciple.”
  • “The Large Family Bible” 1820: Isaiah 66:9 reads: “Shall I bring to birth and not cease to bring forth?” rather than “Shall I bring to birth and not cause to bring forth?”.
  • “Rebecca’s Camels Bible” 1823: “Camels” replaces “damsels” in one instance, making Genesis 24:61 read “And Rebecca arose, and her camels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebecca and went his way.”
  • “Owl Bible” 1944: “Owl” replaces “own”, making 1 Peter 3:5 read, “For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their owl husbands.” The error was caused by a printing plate with a damaged letter n.
More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_errata

James
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Okay… um… those are good, I think I can use those but… are there any more? ^^’
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
Okay… um… those are good, I think I can use those but… are there any more? ^^’
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I get the impression here that I am helping you cheat on a high school term paper or something. 😃

I am assuming you got the big one - the omission of the 7deuterocanonical books. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

Here are a lot more errors:
bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm#errors

Worse than translation errors of course are the atrocious teaching errors that go along with them.

James
 
As a sidenote, on the website www.drbo.org, the ‘malefactors’ error which was listed in the KJV above can be found in Luke 23. There’s no comma after ‘other’, is this just an error on the website or can somebody tell me, does their hard copy Douay-Rheims contain the same error?

matt
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
It’s for my research paper. I’m looking for sites and sources that criticize certain Bible versions used by fundamentalists (the KJV in particular)

I’ve read the Bible Translation Guide but is it all right if I ask for more errors found in the KJV? :o
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You really have to define what you mean by an error.

For instance, if the KJV translators faithfully translated the text available to them but that we believe that text to be incorrect today, is that an error?

If the KJV translators correctly translated it but people reading it today would misunderstand it due to changes in the language would that be an error?

How about the unicorn? Is that an error? They did not know what animal was being referenced and so they followed previous translations such as Luther, the Vulgate and the Septuagint which referred to the single horn or monohorn or some variation of that? People read that and think the mythical horse but the translators did not think that, they though it more likely to be the single horned rhinocerous. In any case, it is a species of extinct oxen, but unicorn really is an accurate translation of the Greek word for the species of oxen. So is that an error, or isn’t it.

Is the paraphrase of “Helel son of Shachar” as Lucifer, the morning star a mistake? Since a literal translation would have meant nothing to the reader it’s hard to say it is a mistake. Lucifer comes from the Vulgate, not the Hebrew.

There’s a few places where names aren’t recognized and where what is taken as a name isn’t.

And there’s the famous straining at a gnat that should be straining out a gnat. But there really aren’t a lot of mistakes on the part of the translators.

In studying the KJV a good place to start with with the bible researcher site: bible-researcher.com/kingjames.html
JJ
 
Lost Wanderer, Google this, exactly as written:

“King James Bible” errors

and you will find a lot of info, both pro and con. You could also try just KJV errors.

Ruthie
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
It’s for my research paper. I’m looking for sites and sources that criticize certain Bible versions used by fundamentalists (the KJV in particular)

I’ve read the Bible Translation Guide but is it all right if I ask for more errors found in the KJV? :o
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The part that always stuck out to me was the mis-translation and actually putting the word “unicorn” in the KJV Bible. I’ve never got a good defense from the KJV-only crowd about that lol
 
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The part that always stuck out to me was the mis-translation and actually putting the word “unicorn” in the KJV Bible. I’ve never got a good defense from the KJV-only crowd about that lol
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Hmm… I’ve always been curious about that particular blunder. Can you tell me more? 🙂
 
That goes back to the Septuagint. There was a Hebrew word which was an unknown at the time species of animal. In the Septuagint the name given is literally the single horn.

Jerome, in the Vulgate adds a spin to it, he translates some of the occurances of the single horn as unicorn and some as rhinocerous. As is easily seen even in Latin, but you can check the DRB as well since it follows the Vulgate.

When the KJV translators did their translation they went to consistently translating the single horn as unicorn, a literal translation and they put rhinocerous in the footnotes.

If you think when you read unicorn of the mythical horse with a single horn, that wasn’t in view. Unicorn was the name of the single horned rhinocerous.

So basically the KJV translators followed the tradition when one did not understand something in the original language well of following other translations.

You can’t say their translation is really in error for using unicorn without saying both the Vulgate and the DRB are in error as well. Actually the rhinocerous would more be an error than the unicorn since it was effectively and interpretive translation while the unicorn literally followed the Septuagint.

Turns out what was in view was the extinct aurochs which it turns out due to the way their horn looked were evidently called the single horn in Greek. One horn comes up and the horn boss goes right across the top of the head much like a water buffalo and down the other side.

So it’s an interesting linguistic study. But it would be really unfair to single out the KJV translators since every translation from the Vulgate to at least the DRB basically did and followed the same thing. Making a literal or sometimes an incorrect interpretive translation of the Septuagint.

Here are the verses from the KJV
(Num 23:22 kjv) God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

(Num 24:8 kjv) 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.

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

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

(Psa 29:6 kjv) He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

(Psa 92:10 kjv) But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

DRB
(Num 23:22 DRB) God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
(Num 24:8 DRB) God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.
(Job 39:9 DRB) Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
(Job 39:10 DRB) Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
(Psa 29:6 DRB) And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns.
(Psa 92:10 DRB) (92:11) But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

JJ
 
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