The so-called Wicked Bible is a 1631 version of the King James, printed by Robert Barker and Matin Lucas. This particular Bible is so-called because the printers somehow managed to leave out the word not in the commandment against adultery. They were, indeed, punished. Behold the offending page. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Wicked Bible”
We were talking earlier about the King James Bible.
Grant, do you know what the Wicked Bible is?
Oh, I don’t know.
It’s got like the satanic verses in it or something?
No.
I don’t know.
This is a version of the King James Bible that was published in 1631 by the unfortunate printer Robert Barker and his co-worker Martin Lucas. Poor guys. They accidentally, in this edition of the Bible, left out the knot from the commandment against committing adultery.
We can link to a picture of that particular page on our website. Both of them were fined for the offense. That’s got to be the typo of all time. The only way it could be worse is if the tablet that Moses held actually had a typo on it.
Maybe they were true to the source.
Yeah, maybe there are some people who would.
Anyway.
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