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Updating the language of the Bible
Rob Lacey, author of 'The Word on the Street', reads his contemporary version of the story of Creation. This is compared with the King James version. Lacey's paraphrase is not, he explains, a replacement for the 'real' Bible, but a way into it for those for whom the traditional translations are inaccessible.
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