{"id":20531,"date":"2016-04-11T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/blog\/?p=20531"},"modified":"2016-04-14T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:26:05","slug":"how-is-a-bible-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-is-a-bible-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is a Bible Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how your Bible was made? I&#8217;m not referring to the long history of inspiration, preservation, and translation that brought God&#8217;s Word through the ages of history to our bookshelves today&mdash;I&#8217;m talking about the physical process of creating a printed Bible. Our friends at Crossway have published an interesting video tour of a Bible bindery in the Netherlands:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161209676?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>[Browse the <a href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/page\/bibles?p=1172374&#038;utm_source=bg&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=blog\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bible section<\/strong><\/a> in the Bible Gateway Store]<\/p>\n<p>Crossway&#8217;s blog has a detailed write-up about the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-an-esv-bible-is-made\/\">process of printing and binding a high-quality Bible<\/a>, as well as related posts about the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/choosing-the-right-bible-cover-material\/\">Bible covers<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/things-you-may-not-know-about-bible-paper\/\">Bible paper<\/a>. (The specific Bible in question here is the English Standard Version, which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+1&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\">read online here at Bible Gateway<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/page\/bibles?p=1172374&#038;utm_source=bg&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=blog\" target=\"_blank\">purchase in print at the Bible Gateway Store<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how your Bible was made? I&#8217;m not referring to the long history of inspiration, preservation, and translation that brought God&#8217;s Word through the ages of history to our bookshelves today&mdash;I&#8217;m talking about the physical process of creating a printed Bible. 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