Salt Lake Herald | 1907-11-11 | Page 6 | Old Bible a Treasure

OLD BIBLE A TREASURE Berlin Beilin Cor Chicago Inter Ocean In the famous library of tel in Hesse Is an old Bible which is greatly treasured but until the other day da it was wag not known why It Is so valued The mystery has now been beel solved by b the discovery of papers r hating to It It appears that In that passage In Genesis where God told Eve that Adam shall hall be ho her master and ands shall s rule over oel her the German trans translation lation laCon Is Und er soil soU dein Herr seln Herr which means mens master does doCs do s snot not occur in this Bible but instead there appears the word tord means fool The newly discovered documents document say sa that the error was caused by a quarrel between the printer and his wife In the year 1580 The wife Ite was as vengeful and andIn nd In the silent watches of ot the night she entered the room where her husband had been setting type and maliciously changed Herr Her Into The printer was arrested arest d after the book had been printed and the mistake discovered but his apprentice testified I that he saw sw the wife steal nto the com corn composing composing posing room and alter aler the word The woman was wa Imprisoned for blasphemy and died in prison Orders were given that all an the copies cop s i of the edition should be destroyed This i was wis was done with the exception of or the theone theone theone one copy In the library