A mistranslation

I've recently come across something in my readings that I feel is dire to everyone out there to know. Here's passage from Richard Dawkins' "The selfish gene"

I suppose the scholars of the Septuagint could at least be said to have started something big when they mistranslated the Hebrew word for ‘young woman’ into the Greek word for ‘virgin’, coming up with the prophecy: ‘Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son…


Wow