Thou shalt not have any more excuses for not reading the Bible, millennials.
The most-widely read and translated book in the world is now available in emoji form.
The first line of the Bible Emoji: scripture 4 millenials reads, "in the beginning [angel emoji] created the [stars emojis] & the [earth emoji]."
Yes, it's all in lower case. And at 3300 pages, no, it wasn't translated entirely by hand. This is 2016, after all.
"You start with emojis that are really common -- for instance, the earth emoji can mean earth, world, or planet," creator [smiley face emoji] told tech news site The Memo.
"Eventually I created an actual translator program with a list of 80 different emoji icons, and 200 corresponding words… I built in some common shorthand -- so that 'and' became &, and 'first' became 1st."
It's estimated to be about 15 percent shorter than the classic King James version -- the one you probably learned at Sunday school.
[smiley face emoji] says not everyone who's learned of Bible Emoji has heeded the words of Jesus.
"I've received a lot of tweets, some very nice some very, not nice. But it's all worth the goal of making the Bible a little more approachable, to inject some levity, and to get people to look at it, with no particular agenda beyond that."
Other off-the-wall languages people have tried translating the Bible into include Klingon, 'redneck' and LOLcat.
Bible Emoji: scripture 4 millenials is available on iTunes.
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