Although rare now, hand-crafted Bibles were common before the invention of the printing press.
The company branched out from selling bibles to peddling reference books, cookbooks and childrens books.
The group estimates it has distributed 1.7 billion Bibles in the project's 104-year history.
It will encourage audiences around the world to open or reopen Bibles to understand and enjoy these stories.
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ABS, not the Gideons, pioneered the practice of putting Bibles in hotel rooms.
However, only four of them are directly involved in the distribution of Bibles.
Churches can get hold of Bibles or download hymn books from the internet.
It was witnessed among parishioners of churches that stood no more, a roadside congregation, holding bibles in their laps.
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Born-again Christians, the two keep bibles in the office, and print John 3:16 on the bottom of each shopping bag.
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Western missionaries brought grapes and wine to China along with their Bibles as they did in so many other countries.
Dating back to 1856, Southwestern hired college students to sell a book line, then headed by bibles, in towns across the country.
Around 24, 000 Bibles are being given out to schools by the Department for Education to mark last year's 400th anniversary of its publication.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.
So if someone was telling me that they print bibles and the money was spent on translation, then the IRS forms should reflect that idea.
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Some of the money had been stuffed between the pages of their Bibles, according to U.S. customs agents who detained the couple at the Miamiairport.
The King James, also known as the Authorised Version, remains one of the most frequently used Bibles in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States.
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Prince serves as a board member of Christian Freedom International, a nonprofit group that provides Bibles, food and other help to Christians in countries where they face persecution.
As he was sworn in, Mr Obama placed his left hand on bibles owned by legendary American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and President Abraham Lincoln.
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From the Mountain West to the Southeast to the Midwest, people who wear badges, run businesses and carry Bibles are building a new consensus on immigrants and America.
The reason: Torahs aren't printed like ordinary books or Bibles.
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Thomas Nelson, the leading publisher of Bibles, is headquartered here.
Initially, ABS strove simply to supply Bibles-168 million in the U.S. so far-but later expanded to commissioning new biblical editions and translations into what ABS says is 2, 300 languages.
He repeated those words at Monday's public inauguration, placing his left hand on Bibles owned by legendary American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and President Abraham Lincoln.
Europe's rising middle classes, increasingly literate, demanded Bibles that they could read themselves in a language they understood, as well as details of new philosophic, geographic and scientific discoveries.
Obama, the first African-American president and the 17th to win a second term, used a pair of Bibles in Monday's ceremony -- one from Abraham Lincoln, the other from Martin Luther King Jr.
As various bibles maintain that the earth was created in one week, I decided to wait seven days to see if any of the biggest media outlets would bring light to the subject.
That's when nationwide conservative radio program Focus on the Family broadcast a 15-minute interview with Anderson, who compared scrapbooks with family Bibles and preached how they could heal wounds, increase children's self-esteem and generally save the world.
Using expensive Internet databases, census reports, passenger lists, graveyards, family Bibles, "even turning over cardboard boxes and tapping people awake on the street, " says Morse, the hunters track down the rightful heirs, many of whom never even knew the deceased.
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