The Bible has been translated into English a number of times, in 1380 John Wiclif, aka "The Morning Star of the Reformation" who was the first to translate the entire Bible into English. But, he did it using the Latin Vulgate. Tyndale in 1534, Cranmer in 1539, Geneva in 1557, the Puritan Bible, written by William Whittingham & Anthony Gilby, this Bible which the Queen Mary of England did NOT want translated into English had margins with over 300,000 notes to help in the understanding of the scriptures. This Bible was printed from 1560-1644.

1. What are some errors in the King
James Bible?
The Bible has been translated into English a number of times, in 1380
John Wiclif, aka "The Morning Star of the Reformation" who was the
first to translate the entire Bible into English. But, he did it using the
Latin Vulgate. Tyndale in 1534, Cranmer in 1539, Geneva in 1557, the
Puritan Bible, written by William Whittingham & Anthony Gilby, this
Bible which the Queen Mary of England did NOT want translated into
English had margins with over 300,000 notes to help in the
understanding of the scriptures. This Bible was printed from
1560-1644.
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2. The critical of the translations is the King James in 1611. This
translation was done using the original scrolls in Hebrew and Greek
and commissioned by King James Charles Stuart who was born on June
19, 1566 at Edinburg Castle in Scotland.
THE TRANSLATORS OF THE 1611 KJV
There were 40 translators of the Bible. Each translator was directly
commissioned by King James. The majority of the translators were
doctors of divinity from the University of Cambridge, Oxford
University, Trinity College and Westminster.
If we read the Bible at face value, without a preconceived bias for
finding errors, we will find it to be a coherent, consistent, and a
relatively easy-to-understand book. This is not to say that the Bible is
a simple read, it is a spiritual writing.
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of
God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:12-14
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3. Yes, there are difficult passages. Yes, there are verses that appear to
contradict each other. We must remember that the 40 different
authors over a period of around 1500 years, wrote with a different
style, from a different perspective, to a different audience, for a
different purpose. We should expect some minor differences.
However, a difference is not a contradiction. It is only an error if there is
absolutely no conceivable way the verses or passages can be reconciled.
Even if an answer is not available right now, that does not mean an
answer does not exist. Many have found a supposed error in the Bible
in relation to history or geography only to find out that the Bible is
correct once further archaeological evidence is discovered.
There are viable and intellectually plausible answers to every
supposed Bible contradiction and error. There are books and websites
available that list “all the errors in the Bible.” Most people simply get
their ammunition from these places; they do not find supposed errors
on their own.
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4. There are also books and websites available that refute every one of
these supposed errors. Most people who attack the Bible are not truly
interested in an answer. Many “Bible attackers” are even aware of
these answers, but they continue to use the same attacks again and
again. (2 Timothy 2:15, 3:16-17).
Printing errors, in the 1611 KJV there were errors, the manuscript from
which the printers worked has not survived, so it is not always
possible to be absolutely certain if errors can be attributed to the
typesetters, but there are some clear cut instances. Perhaps the most
obvious error is the repetition of three lines in Exodus 14:10.
The most common incorrectly printed word is “and” which appears as
“aud” on twenty eight occasions. This mistake is easily understood,
type had to be reused, so when one page had been sent, the type was
released from its frame and redistributed into two cases, the upper case
for Capitals and the lower case.
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5. A lower case “n” when turned upside down, looks like a lower case “u”,
so the apprentice in charge of redistributing the type could easily
throw an “n” into the “u” box, the result when the compositor
(typesetter) resumed his task was “aud”.
The scale of print errors is very small, about 350 in all, of which about
250 are in the text and the rest on in the margins. The Book of Isaiah
has three occurrences of “aud” (Isaiah 5:13, 29:3, 40:12) two misprinted
cross references (Pron. for Prou. at 5:23 and Gel for Gal. at 60:9)
There are two misspellings in the summaries. (folishnesse in chapter 19,
powerfulll in chapter 49) and several misprints in the text: vsion for
vision (29:11) felfe for selfe (37.30) thouhts for thoughts (55:9)
Very few of the errors are not obvious to the practiced eye, though
some could cause confusion, such as “plaine” in Leviticus 13:56, which
should be “plague”
In other cases the precise nature of the error is unclear. Such
ambiguity can occur when a catchword is involved. A catchword is a
word inserted at the bottom of one page and repeated at the top of the
next page to facilitate the ordering of unnumbered pages.
The catchword at the bottom of the page of Jeremiah 5:12 for example
is “For” but the first word on the next page is “They” one possibility is
the catchword is wrong, but it is equally possible that the translators
intended the verse to begin “For They.”
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