Show Some Eccentric Bibles Although everybody knows thai there are in existence certain edition of Bibles which are much prized b bibliomaniacs on account of iomt ridiculous printers blonder few people peo-ple perhap3 are aware bov many o these editions there are The rcq widely known are the Breeches ace Vinegar Bibles Tbe former iso is-o lled because in the Geneva versio of Genesis iii 7 Adam and Eve BA spoken of as making themaelve breeches out of t fig leaves Toi translation of the scriptures whirl was done by the Eoglish exiles at Geneva served as a regular family Bible in the reign of Queen Elizi beth until it was tur > prtrfd by the authorized vrMoa 01 J tones I Tee Vinegar Bible wS s B > Dmtd rum the j head line of the 20m cmpprof 5 Luke which reads as rUe pah of the Vinegar IDS eid 01 The Vineyard fue date of thu was 1717 In addition however to tbe = s well known example there are others quite aa singular lie Bag Bible was eo called from its rendering render-ing Psalm xci 5 Afraid of bogs by night Tais reading was printed b 1551 Tbe Placemalters Bible obtained its name from a remarkable typographical error wLich occurs ic Mat then v izviz Biased are the piaoemakere instead Of peace maker foe politicians of the present day would probably not hare objected to the former benediction The Treacle Bible printed in 156i had a passage in Jeremiah viii 22 which read Ia there no treacle ir Gileadinatead ofis no there balm The He and She Bible was so called from a very slight mistate that occurred occur-red in Ruth iii 15 when instead oil ahe went into the city U it printed be went The Wicked Bible printed in 1631 was rather an expensive ex-pensive one to the printer who wai fined 300 because frost malice 0 carelessness the negative was left ou of the seventh conmandmeot Exodus 3x 14 The Murderer Bible was a mistake of tie preset century and wat 10 called from at error in tho IGth verse of the Epistle of Jude making it to read Iher are murderers complainers inelei of murmurers The PrintS Bible issued in 1702 contained I absurd misstatement of David In 1 Paalm csix 5 161 in which ho j pathetically made to say that priV t ers persecuted him with CBuseII stead of princea |