Does the bible have any spelling mistakes in it?
There are occasionally printer’s errors in modern editions. The most famous one comes from “The Sinners Bible” printed in England under the Tudors; it was called the SINNERS Bible because of a most unfortunate omission: the Sixth Commandment (or seventh if you’re a Protestant) reads, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” It was very popular. But standardized spelling didn’t exist before the late 1700s/early 1800s — before which spelling was largely a matter of taste. Of course it’s one thing to spell conceived “conseevd”; it’s quite another to spell it “conceited”. Of course, arguably every manuscript copy of anything ever produced had scribal errors, though the Masoretes (a Jewish sect/school of the Middle Ages) were so punctilious (and even anal) about it, that if a single error was found, the whole page had to be burned and the ashes buried. (They also had to praise God’s Name seven times and then take a bath before they dared write the sacred Tetragrammaton YHVH.) And they had several che
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