The New Bible 13/3/1925

heroInsight April/May 2000

Source: International Herald Tribune - 13/3/00

New York: Prohibition has added a new version of the Bible. Scribners announce the publication of two volumes of a shorter Bible, edited by two Yale professors and the YMCA, in which the festive passages are all dry.

Wherever the word `wine' appears in the King James version raisin cake now takes its place.

Thus, 1 Chronicles xvi, 1: `And he dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine' becomes `And he dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh and a cake of raisins'.