This quiz has given a mental workout to even the best Bible Students. See if you can find the books of the Bible hidden in the paragraph below. Only the most astute will get them all. Yes, there are really twenty, not nineteen. Try your best and send me and e-mail with your answers in the proper order in which they occur in the text below.

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  |O|      CAN YOU FIND 20 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE IN THIS PARAGRAPH?       |O|
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  |O|    Someone showed me this story and remarked that there are      |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    twenty books of the Bible hidden here.  He challenged me to   |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    find them.  Sure enough they're all here.  Still this thing   |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    is a lulu.  Kept me looking so hard for the longest time.     |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    Some of you will get bogged down with facts, others are hit   |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    by them like they were some kind of revelation or one may     |O|
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  |O|    get in a jam, especially since the names are not capatilized  |O|
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  |O|    and often leap the spaces between the words.  This makes it   |O|
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  |O|    a real job to find them, but it'll provide a most             |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    fascinating few minutes for you. Yes, there are some really   |O|
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  |O|    easy ones to spot, but don't get the big head cause           |O|
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  |O|    truthfully you'll soon figure that it would take more         |O|
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  |O|    federal judges and preachers numbers of hours to find them    |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    all.  I will admit that it usually takes a minister to find   |O|
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  |O|    one of them, and that is not uncommon, for there are to be    |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    loud lamentations when it is pointed out. One lady says that  |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    when she is confronted with puzzles like this, she brews a    |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    cup of tea to help her concentrate better, but then this      |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    gals a real pro.  Verbs, nouns, and all that stuff are her    |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    thing.  See how well you can compete.  Relax!  If you fail    |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    to find them, there's a penalty.  You'll have to go fly a     |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    kite, sit on a banana, hum the Battle Hymn of the Republic,   |O|
  |O|                                                                  |O|
  |O|    or hose a dog (a mean one).  Get to it!                       |O|
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I'd be interested in seeing if you can find them, so send me your answers. Just go through and capitalize all the books of the bible found here and send it back to me.

Don't cheat now! Give yourself plenty of time to get all 20 answers. Yes, they are really there!

Give up? Here are the answers.