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A 1944 edition of the Bible told women to submit to their ‘owl’ husbands instead of their ‘own’ husbands. In 1682, the so-called ‘Cannibal’s Bible’ included the line ‘if the latter husband ate her’, instead of ‘if the latter husband hate her’. Perhaps the most sinful mistake of all came from a 1631 edition, known as the ‘Wicked Bible’, which missed out the word ‘not’ in the Seventh Commandment, so it read: ‘Thou shalt commit adultery.’
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