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The Wicked Bible

Have you heard of it? It so happens that in the days when printing Bibles was expensive, some mistakes happened. So, at the start of Bibles, you would find a “List of faultes escaped”, i.e. all the typos that were to be found inside the Bible.

One such typo happened in a very unfortunate place: a “not” was missed out. The so-called “Wicked Bible” therefore read “Thou shalt commit adultery”

More info on Wikipedia