htaccess redirect of multi pages to multi destinations

Hello,
     I searched the archives, the newsgroups, and the web, and haven't
found a good answer. Please help.

I am rearranging the (extremely outdated) pages of my site. I would
like to use the .htaccess file to smoothly redirect people from the old
addresses to the new ones.

Unfortunately, I only know how to make .htaccess redirect one page. The
following works beautifully when it is the sole content of my .htaccess
file:
     Redirect permanent /first.html zarathud.org/page1.html

If I add to that, then I am suddenly unable to find any page on
Zarathud. The one page I found describing how to do multiple pages says
to list each redirect on its own line:
     Redirect permanent /first.html zarathud.org/page1.html
     Redirect permanent /page2.shtml zarathud.org/sub/page2.html
     Redirect permanent /page3.html zarathud.org/boat/page3.html

I also tried several variations: separating the statements by commas,
semicolons, pipes; only separating the old & new path argument pairs by
those separators; etc. 
No matter what, trying to do multi pages has always broken the site: I
get 500 Internal Server Error for every page on the site.

Please help. I need to solve this so I can put the company site up
online.

Many TIA,
Complex

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