The so-called "errors" and "contradictions" in the Bible can all be reconciled. But since the Masoretic Text is the traditional Hebrew text of the Bible, and the Hebrew scribes since the time of Moses were meticulous in copying the manuscripts very carefully, anyone claiming that the MT is erroneous has a hidden agenda. Proof of the faithfulness of the MT was found in the Isaiah scroll discovered with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Do you believe everything the Bible says?
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Actually I did an in-depth analysis of this idea, and discovered that they "quoted" from the LXX about 10% of the time. Naturally some direct translations from the MT would match those from the LXX. So that is a common fallacy, given the fact that the LXX was a Greek translation being used by Hellenistic Jews outside Palestine, whereas the MT was being used within Palestine. Furthermore there is no question that the LXX was a corruption of the OT and this is spelled out by Alfred Edersheim in The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. So would Christ use a corrupted version of what He regarded as "the Holy Scriptures"?
There was no pre-Christian, official and authoritative so called Greek Septuagint. What passes for the LXX today is nothing more than the Vaticanus, Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus manuscripts, all of which were written some 250 to 300 years AFTER the New Testament was already complete. And they contradict themselves thousands of times.
Fascinating. Because the KJV translators followed the MT. 
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. (Acts 8:32,33)
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (Isa 53:7,8)
As we can see, there are slight variations in the NT, but since both Acts and Isaiah were given by the Holy Spirit, we can rest assured that God allowed those variations (since the Holy Spirit is interpreting His own words). But the OT is an exact match to the Hebrew MT (making allowance for differences in word order):
נִגַּ֨שׂ וְה֣וּא נַעֲנֶה֮ וְלֹ֣א יִפְתַּח־פִּיו֒ כַּשֶּׂה֙ לַטֶּ֣בַח יוּבָ֔ל וּכְרָחֵ֕ל לִפְנֵ֥י גֹזְזֶ֖יהָ נֶאֱלָ֑מָה וְלֹ֥א יִפְתַּ֖ח פִּֽיו
He was oppressed and He was afflicted yet not He opened His mouth. As a lamb to the slaughter He was led, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so not He opened His mouth.
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Here is John Gill's explanation but it is not entirely satisfactory: "it seems best to acknowledge a mistake of the copier, which might easily be made through a similarity of the numeral letters, forty two, for twenty two..."
אַרְבָּעִ֨ים ’ar-bā-‘îm = forty
וּשְׁתַּ֤יִם ū-šə-ta-yim = and two
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עֶשְׂרִ֨ים ‘eś-rîm = twenty
וּשְׁתַּ֤יִם ū-šə-ta-yim = and two
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In Clarke's commentary on 2 Kings 8:26 here is what we read: "I add, that no mode of solution yet found out has succeeded in removing the difficulty; and of all the MSS. which have been collated, and they amount to several hundred, not one confirms the reading of twenty-two years. And to it all the ancient versions are equally unfriendly. "
There is probably some explanation for this discrepancy but it has not been resolved.
אַרְבָּעִ֨ים ’ar-bā-‘îm = forty
וּשְׁתַּ֤יִם ū-šə-ta-yim = and two
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עֶשְׂרִ֨ים ‘eś-rîm = twenty
וּשְׁתַּ֤יִם ū-šə-ta-yim = and two
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In Clarke's commentary on 2 Kings 8:26 here is what we read: "I add, that no mode of solution yet found out has succeeded in removing the difficulty; and of all the MSS. which have been collated, and they amount to several hundred, not one confirms the reading of twenty-two years. And to it all the ancient versions are equally unfriendly. "
There is probably some explanation for this discrepancy but it has not been resolved.
Fascinating.Because the KJV translators followed the MT.
One thing that is fortunate was Jerome redacted the Septuagint by comparing the Septuagint to the Hebrew and made the corrections in his Latin Vulgate.
The unfortunate issue about 4th Century and 10th Century revision of the Vulgate had [[NOTHING]] to do with the Old Testament but rather the New Testament. This is where the majority of errors exist between the KJV and the oldest Greek Text we have in existence.
This one. Do these convey the same message? I don’t think they do.
Revelation 22
NIV
14“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
KJV
14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Revelation 22
NIV
14“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
KJV
14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
