Biden will be sworn in using family Bible that he also used in 2009 and 2013

January 20, 2021 22:13

When Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US president, its expected hell have his hand where it has been every time hes taken an oath of office before -- on the Biden family Bible.

The Bible is five inches thick, features a Celtic cross on the cover, and has been in the Biden family since 1893.

Biden used the Bible each time he took the oath as vice president and for each of his seven Senate swearings-in, starting in 1973. The Bible was used during his swearing-in as Vice President in 2009 and 2013.

In 2009, Bidens final oath in the Senate was delayed when the Bible couldnt be located, the Wilmington News Journal reported. Beau Biden, Bidens son who died in 2015, also used the Bible when he was sworn in as attorney general of Delaware in 2007.

"Every important date is in there. For example, every time Ive been sworn in for anything, the date has been on that, and its inscribed on the Bible," Biden told Stephen Colbert in December 2020. "Our son, when he was sworn in as attorney general, all the important dates in our family, going way back. And its just been a family heirloom."

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