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Post by finsobruce on Oct 18, 2021 10:22:52 GMT
You must be relieved to know that your copy is not missing a whole section due to an error at the binders. I once owned a copy of the Bible with a section of the Book of Job missing, due to a binding mistake. As it was Job, perhaps that was no bad thing. There was once a Jacobean (I think) translation of the Bible that missed one word from the relevant commandment and thus on the highest authority commanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" The so called "wicked" bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, who were the King's printers - the King in this case being Charles I . Unsurprisingly they lost their licence to print and were fined quite a lot of money. There is supposedly another mistake in Deuteronomy where the Lord showed his "great-asse" instead of his 'greatness".
The most recent copy to be auctioned (2018) sold for $56, 250. Only ten copies survive in total as they were supposed to have been burnt.
There are many other editions of the Bible with misprints including the so called "Vinegar Bible" containing the parable of the Vinegar instead of the Vineyard.
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Post by iang on Oct 18, 2021 11:07:33 GMT
There was once a Jacobean (I think) translation of the Bible that missed one word from the relevant commandment and thus on the highest authority commanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" The so called "wicked" bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, who were the King's printers - the King in this case being Charles I . Unsurprisingly they lost their licence to print and were fined quite a lot of money. There is supposedly another mistake in Deuteronomy where the Lord showed his "great-asse" instead of his 'greatness".
The most recent copy to be auctioned (2018) sold for $56, 250. Only ten copies survive in total as they were supposed to have been burnt.
There are many other editions of the Bible with misprints including the so called "Vinegar Bible" containing the parable of the Vinegar instead of the Vineyard.
This sounds suspiciously apocryphal, but I remember reading years ago that when the NT was translated into Inuit, putting one letter upside down rendered the warning "Nation shall rise against nation" as "A pair of snow-shoes shall rise against a pair of snow shoes" |
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 18, 2021 11:31:41 GMT
The so called "wicked" bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, who were the King's printers - the King in this case being Charles I . Unsurprisingly they lost their licence to print and were fined quite a lot of money. There is supposedly another mistake in Deuteronomy where the Lord showed his "great-asse" instead of his 'greatness".
The most recent copy to be auctioned (2018) sold for $56, 250. Only ten copies survive in total as they were supposed to have been burnt.
There are many other editions of the Bible with misprints including the so called "Vinegar Bible" containing the parable of the Vinegar instead of the Vineyard.
This sounds suspiciously apocryphal, but I remember reading years ago that when the NT was translated into Inuit, putting one leader upside down rendered the warning "Nation shall rise against nation" as "A pair of snow-shoes shall rise against a pair of snow shoes" There are, of course, quite a few different aboriginal languages in the area and the Bible has only recently been fully translated into some of them. There was some controversy a while back about a style guide for Canadian journalists that had made mistakes in nomenclature for the various peoples and languages - and they were trying to correct previous errors :
If you read the article you can understand how mistakes might have been made historically , most of the first translations being made by Danish Bible Societies.
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 19, 2021 15:29:07 GMT
Truly you are a Font of Knowledge, Finso!
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