Thursday, March 03, 2011

Thou Shalt What???

If you happen to be in England for the Royal wedding this spring, you may want to pop over to Cambridge University to check out their special display of rare bibles. One of the bibles is known as the "wicked bible" or "sinner's bible". Through a typographical error, or Freudian slip, the seventh commandment was listed as "thou shalt commit adultery". King Charles I, that old killjoy, was most displeased. He fined the printers and demanded that all the bibles be recalled and burned. Only a few bibles survived, making the wicked bible very rare indeed.

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