Sinner's Bible

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The Sinner's Bible or Wicked Bible is the nickname given to a printing of the King James Version of the Holy Bible in 1632. Although it was intended to be a reprint of the 1611 King James Bible, the nickname was earned after the words "not" were accidentally omitted from some of the ten commandments in the printing. For example, it reads "thou shalt kill" and "thou shalt commit adultery." The printing resulted in the publisher's being bankrupted by fines, imprisoned and whipped at the tail of the cart ^[1].

The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Old Testament, and the typesetting errors were not repeated in their second occurrence. Existing copies of this small run are extremely valuable to book collectors.