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I am amazed at the number of people visiting this particular subject. It is crazy! Leave your comments for this post when you are finished researching.

Thanks for your comments Neal.

I personally do not see the above (what you listed) as errors.

Unicorn:
A thorough investigation of the word “unicorn” would help one from running with the modern mystical idea of this extinct animal. This word is used 9 times in the KJV and is not translated otherwise. The Geneva Bible reads the same. It is easy to research earlier use of the word.

Easter:
First, “Easter” is not a ref. to the resurrection as we use the term today. It is a pagan festival with ancient roots. Second, the same translators that translated this word 28 times as “Passover” made the decision to translate Acts 12:4 as Easter. Why? Did they have a brain fart? Were they led by evil spirits in this one verse? Did they just want to place a clear error to prove what they were translating is not perfect? Or were they led by the Spirit of God to do so? Third, Herod was a Roman, a pagan, and Easter was celebrated in the same month as Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Fourth, Acts 12:3 says they were already in the days of unleavened bread. Passover always occurs (in Scripture not foot notes) before the days of Unleavened Bread.

Turtle:
The very first definition in the Oxford Dictionary is that of a turtle-dove. The reptile meaning is the second definition. This is because the Oxford, like Webster’s and many other dictionaries, arranges its definitions not according to the most common modern meanings first, but according to chronological development, that is to say the earliest meaning is presented first and later meanings appear in order of their historical appearance in the English language. The word in question, as we can see by the Oxford’s lexicon below, goes back to Old English, several hundred years before Shakespeare and the King James Bible [http://www.oed.com/].

“Turtle 1.
1. a. = TURTLE-DOVE 1. (Often mentioned as a type of conjugal affection and constancy: cf. 2.)

c1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxxxiii[i]. 3 Him eac spedlice spearuwa hus begyte, and tidlice turtle nistla. c1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke ii. 24 Twa turtlan oe tween culfran briddas. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 49 Turtle ne wile habbe no make bute on and after at non..e bitocninge at is imene turtlen and duues… Eier turtles and duues habbet sorinesse for song. c1200 ORMIN 7588 Tweenn cullfre briddess..Or..tween turrtless. 1382 WYCLIF Ps. lxxxiii. 4 [lxxxiv. 3] Forsothe the sparowe fonde to hym an hous; and the turtil a nest. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. ciii. 104 Pytous as turtyll. 1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 373/2 Lyke a turtle that allone without make waylleth and wepeth. a1548 HALL Chron., Hen. VI 118 As louyng to him, as the Turtle to her make. 1611 SHAKES. Wint. T. IV. iv. 154 Your hand (my Perdita) so Turtles paire That neuer meane to part. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals I. III. 91 A Mass is sung, and his Holiness presented with two young Turtles. 1713 STEELE Guard. No. 22. 2 [She] kept a pair of turtles cooing in her chamber. 1802 MONTAGU Ornith. Dict. s.v. Dove-turtle, The Turtle visits the southern parts of England in the spring. 1851 MAYHEW Lond. Labour (1861) III. 64 His pigeon-cote..is no longer stocked with carriers,..jacobins,..turtles. 1860 C. ROSSETTI O. & N. Year Ditties iii, Turtle calleth turtle in Heaven’s May.”

The reptilian definition did not appear in English literature until about 1657 and at that time the spelling differentiated it from the dove. The spelling of the two words eventually merged, but both meanings continued to exist side by side until some time after the 1860’s, and initially the reptilian word was largely restricted to use by sailors.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary of (1913) also defines “turtle” as turtle dove.

Satyr:
From even the modern Wikipedia:
In the King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 13:21 and 34:14, the English word “satyr” is used to represent the Hebrew sh’lrlm, “hairy ones”. In Hebrew folklore, sh’lrlm are a type of demon or supernatural being which inhabits waste places. There is an allusion to the practice of sacrificing to the sh’lrlm (often translated as “devils” ) in Leviticus 17:7. They correspond to the “shaggy demon of the mountain-pass” (azabb al-akaba) of old Arab legend.