(thing) by lenz Wed Mar 06 2002 at 16:52:56

A 1701 edition of the King James Bible, where the word "princes" was mistakenly written as "printers". So instead of reading:

in Psalm 119, verse 161, it read

Something similar had already happened in 1631 with the so-called Wicked Bible and in 1653 with the Unrighteous Bible; and was to happen again in 1801 with the so-called Murderer's Bible.

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