President-elect Donald Trump will place his hand on two copies of the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, the culmination of… 60th Presidential Inauguration Ceremony.
Trump will use the Bible his mother gave him in 1955, “on the occasion of his graduation from Sunday School Elementary at the First Presbyterian Church, in Jamaica, New York,” according to a press release from his inauguration committee.
The religious text is a 1953 Revised Standard Version published by Thomas Nelson & Sons of New York. Trump's name is engraved On the bottom of the front cover, and inside the cover are the signatures of church officials, an inscription of the president's name and details of when he was presented.
In addition to the Passionate Bible, the Lincoln Bible, first used in 1861 for the swearing-in of the sixteenth President of the United States, will be used.
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“It's only been used three times since then. By President Obama “At each of his inaugurations and by President Trump at his first inauguration in 2017,” the Trump team says. “The burgundy velvet-covered book is part of the collections of the Library of Congress.”
President Obama was also sworn in Two Bible back in 2013As reported by the Associated Press. One was owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and the other was Lincoln's Bible.
Michelle Obama holds a Lincoln Bible as she arrives at Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America on the West Front of the Capitol on January 20, 2009, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson)
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When Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States inside the Capitol's rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday commemorating King's legacy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
