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New Bible Updates Language; ‘Booty’ Falls By Wayside

Here are some of the swaps included in the new Bible:

* “booty” is now “spoils of war” — for presumably obvious reasons.
* “virgin” becomes “young woman” — especially where the original uses the Hebrew word “almah.”
* “holocaust” will become “burnt offerings” - scholars say that was closer to the original meaning, before “holocaust” came to be identified with the genocide of World War II.
* “cereal”— now co-opted by General Mills and Post, becomes “grain.”