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A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery

Mark Frauenfelder
Jul 09, 2026
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Wicked Bible — Narrington77 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikipedia)

The Wicked Bible is a 1631 reprint of the King James Bible that accidentally ordered its readers to sin. Setting the Ten Commandments, London’s royal printers dropped the word “not” from Exodus 20:14, so the Seventh Commandment read “Thou shalt commit adultery.”

It was not the only slip. Deuterono…

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