Challenge: One word makes a difference

Here are the rules:

1) Select any document (Holy Book, Declaration, Decree ect.)
2) Change a single word to a word that sounds similar
3) Describe the butterfly effect
4) Give A Random Person all your money
Good luck, let's see what fun outcomes we come up with.
 
Ok so I don't know if this is very good but I thought that it would give some interesting consequences. So I changed the word House in the 4th amendment of the U.S. constitution to Spouses. Here are both versions of the text (the original and my re-write),

(Original)
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

(Mine)
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, spouses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I think that the re-write would be interpreted as your spouse could not be questioned in relation to something that you were accused of, which of course means that now your house can be searched without a warrant sense its not in the text anymore. I don't know what exact butterflies would be but im sure there would be some rather interesting ones.
 
Remove 'criminal' as a modifier to aggression in the Treaty of Versilles as it regarded to Germany. WHile the change itself is small the author behind it, being an intentional change, would have been set.
 
A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk said, 'We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.' The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.

He asked what was wrong.

'The word is 'celebrate,' not 'celibate'!' sobbed the head monk.
 
There was a misprinted Bible in Britain called "the wicked Bible" because it said "Thou Shalt Commit Adultery."

I wonder what would happen?
 
After 1900, but fits the terms of the challenge...

21st Amendment, section one: "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." becomes "The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed."

The income tax is repealed, but prohibition remains in effect. As a result, Al Capone (who was convicted of tax evasion but acquitted of prohibition violations two years before the 21st amendment) successfully has his conviction overturned on appeal on the grounds that the law he was convicted of violating is now unconstitutional. Out of prison, he receives penicillin treatment for his syphillis and lives to a ripe old age. He continues his involvement in bootlegging, but keeps a lower profile to his criminal activities to avoid further trouble with the law. In later life, he's best know as a philanthropist and public health advocate.
 
There's a real-life example of this: in most Bibles, Jesus says "I came not to bring peace but a sword" which is controversial becuase it seems like it's advocating violence. In the Book of Kells, though, Jesus says "I came not (only) to bring peace but (also) joy". The difference? One says "gladium" and one says "gaudium".

Source: good ol' Wikipedia.
 
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