.. Thou Shalt Commit Adultery...

... Thou shalt commit adultery... 

The holy book, known for nearly 400 years as the Sinners’ Bible, gets one of the Ten Commandments wrong.

Instead of warning Thou shalt not commit adultery, the Seventh Commandment omits “not” and reads Thou shalt commit adultery.

The mistake was not spotted for a year after 1,000 copies of the Bible were printed in 1631.

Furious King Charles 1 ordered that they should all be burned but a few escaped the recall.

Amid the uproar, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote: “I knew the tyme when great care was had about printing, the Bibles especially, good compositors and the best correctors were gotten being grave and learned men.”

It is not now known whether publishers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers, made a genuine error or if it was a mischievous act by a business rival.
The mistake was not spotted for a year after 1,000 copies of the Bible were printed in 1631.

The mistake was not spotted for a year after 1,000 copies of the Bible were printed in 1631

It may have been a simple slip up but others think it was a plot to sabotage Barker’s reputation.

Only nine copies of his controversial bible, also known as the Wicked Bible, exist today.