Thousands pen traveling Bible

A woman writes a verse for the handwritten Bible as others wait their turn.
A woman writes a verse for the handwritten Bible as others wait their turn.


(CNN) -- Call it a project of biblical proportions: 31,173 verses, 90 cities, one Word.

Those are the statistics being touted by Zondervan, the publisher behind a tour to produce a handwritten edition of the New International Version of the Bible -- America's NIV -- to celebrate the translation's 30th anniversary.

"We're basically halfway there," said Zondervan spokeswoman Tara Powers. A little more than 15,000 people had put pen to paper by mid-February. Each person gets to copy one verse of Scripture...to continue reading

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