31,173 Nationwide Help Make Handwritten Bible
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, MI (AP) – More than 31,000 people in 40 states have penned scriptures in a handwritten copy of the Christian Bible.
The nine-month project is part of a promotion by Christian publishing firm Zondervan to mark the 30th anniversary of its New International Version Bible translation. The Bible Across America tour stretched 22,000 miles and ended this past week at the firm’s headquarters in Michigan.
Company president Moe Girkins joined about a dozen people in writing out the Bible’s last verses. He penned the final verse from the book of Revelation: “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.” Others who helped write the final verses were nine members of the Committee on Bible Translation that helped create the edition.
The New International Version Bible is a contemporary-English translation and was published in 1978. Zondervan says there are more than 300 million copies of it in print worldwide. The handwritten copy goes on sale in October.
(Source: OneNewsNow)
