The world's most famous book, which has been translated into more languages than any other publication, is now available in the world's most modern form of communication, SMS or text.

So instead of reading in Genesis how: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ... " it will now be a case of: "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth".

The idea, believed to be a world first, has come from the Bible Society in Australia, which translated all 31,173 verses of the Bible into text.

They can then be accessed over the internet for free and people can send individual verses to family or friends as SMS or text messages via mobile phone.

"People might want to send a verse to a friend in need, instructors might want to add verses to SMS bulletins to youth club members, or other people might just want to send a daily Bible recording to themselves to meditate on while they're on the bus or having lunch," he said.

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