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A show about the past.

Rediscovered.

So here's the thing about printing books.

With thousands and thousands of words in each one,

there's bound to be a mistake somewhere.

A word missing or misspelled.

Often it's no big deal.

Sometimes it changes the meaning of a sentence

or causes a little confusion.

But other times, the result is way less desirable

and changes the book entirely,

like in the case of the wicked Bible.

A full year after the King James Bible was printed in London in 1631, people discovered an error.

In the book of Exodus, Moses brings the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai. That part of the story is familiar. And then, in this

particular version of the Bible, printed between the lines, Thou shall not kill and and thou shall not steal, is a somewhat different

commandment. Thou shall commit adultery. It's a pretty important word missing there.

The confused commandment is not the only major error in that printing either. In a passage

meant to say that God showed his glory and greatness, this particular Bible says, God showed us

his glory and great dairy air. When the air was discovered, King Charles I was justifiably furious.

He ordered every copy of that printing to be gathered up and destroyed.

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