Whether you are a believer or not, you are likely to be familiar with the Ten Commandments, the basic rules of good behavior handed down from God to Moses in the book of Exodus, and which Moses brought to his followers on stone tablets which were then held in a beautiful gold chest known as the Ark of the Covenant (per Britannica).
The Ark and its contents are now sadly lost, but the words upon them have remained central to both Jewish and Christian faiths down the centuries, reiterated on scrolls, in sermons, and, of course, in the Bible. However, not all Bibles have carried the exact same version of the Ten Commandments, with one version printed just after the publication of the King James Bible especially notable.
According to The Guardian, In 1631, two decades after the appearance of the King James Bible, King Charles I commissioned a pair of London printers, Robert Barker — who produced the original KJB — and Martin Lucas, to produce 1,000 new copies of the Bible, an expensive and time-consuming task even after the dawn of printing. However, there was an unfortunate error in their version: between the familiar Commandments "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not steal" is a Commandment missing an all-important "not," which reads: "thou shalt commit adultery."
Ten copies of the "Sinners' Bible" or "Wicked Bible" are known to exist, one of which was sold at Sotheby's for $56,250 in 2018 .
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