Editing King James Version (section)

===Mistranslations===
The King James Version contains several alleged mistranslations, especially in the Old Testament where the knowledge of Hebrew and cognate languages was uncertain at the time.<ref name="Errors in the King James Version?">{{cite web| url=http://www.dbts.edu/journals/1999/combs.pdf| title=Errors in the King James Version? by William W. Combs| access-date=25 April 2015| date=1999| publisher=DBSJ| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212958/http://www.dbts.edu/journals/1999/combs.pdf| archive-date=23 September 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref> Among the most commonly cited errors is in the Hebrew of Job and Deuteronomy, where {{langx|he|רְאֵם|[[Re'em]]}} with the probable meaning of "wild-ox, [[aurochs]]", is translated in the KJV as "[[unicorn]]"; following in this the Vulgate ''unicornis'' and several medieval rabbinic commentators. The translators of the KJV note the alternative rendering, "rhinocerots"{{Sic}} in the margin at Isaiah 34:7. On a similar note Martin Luther's German translation had also relied on the Latin Vulgate on this point, consistently translating רְאֵם using the German word for unicorn, ''Einhorn''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Einhorn&qs_version=LUTH1545|title=BibleGateway – : Einhorn|website=biblegateway.com}}</ref> Otherwise, the translators are accused on several occasions of having mistakenly interpreted a Hebrew descriptive phrase as a proper name (or vice versa); as at 2 Samuel 1:18 where 'the [[Book of Jasher (biblical references)|Book of Jasher]]' {{langx|he|סֵפֶר הַיׇּשׇׁר|sepher ha-yasher}} properly refers not to a work by an author of that name, but should rather be rendered as "the Book of the Upright" (which was proposed as an alternative reading in a marginal note to the KJV text).