{"id":44084,"date":"2022-05-02T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T06:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/02\/rare-wicked-bible-that-encourages-adultery-discovered-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-05-02T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T06:38:24","slug":"rare-wicked-bible-that-encourages-adultery-discovered-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44084","title":{"rendered":"Rare \u2018Wicked\u2019 bible that encourages adultery discovered in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First copy of the 1631 bible, which mistakenly reads \u2018thou shalt commit adultery\u2019, to be found in the southern hemisphere<\/p>\n<p>An extremely rare medieval bible famous for an unfortunate error that encourages adultery has been discovered in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The 1631 \u201cWicked\u201d Bible, as it has become known, omits the word \u201cnot\u201d from its seventh commandment, informing readers \u201cthou shalt commit adultery\u201d. One thousand copies of the text, which also came to be known as the Adulterous or Sinners\u2019 Bible, were printed, with the error only discovered a year later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/02\/rare-wicked-bible-that-encourages-adultery-discovered-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First copy of the 1631 bible, which mistakenly reads \u2018thou shalt commit adultery\u2019, to be found in the southern hemisphereAn extremely rare medieval bible famous for an unfortunate error that encourages adultery has been discovered in New Zealand.The 16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,370,56,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-christianity","category-new-zealand","category-religion"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44084\/revisions\/44092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}