Some of these mis-translations are quite amusing. I remember reading an article a few years ago about how some mysterious ‘structure’ was found on a satellite photo on Turkey’s Mount Ararat, and some people believed it to be Noah’s Ark. Google was able to find that article for me (from National Geographic, April 2010):
“The whole notion is odd, because the Bible tells you the ark landed somewhere in Urartu,”—an ancient kingdom in eastern Turkey—”but it’s only later that people identified Mount Ararat with Urartu,” said Jack Sasson, a professor of Jewish and biblical studies at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
The ‘scholar’ of that article is obviously not aware that the bible was originally written in Hebrew, and that Ararat is not a mis-translation of the Greek or English (or whatever) Urartu!!!!