Churches, donors, and Gideons pay for the Gideon Bibles.
Gideons bibles are given in 5 avenues of life schools, colleges, universities, jails, prisons, pregnancy centers. hospitals, nurses, in hotels, motels and lodges.
The Gideon Bible is not written by a single author but is usually a King James Version of the Bible, which is a translation of the Christian Bible. The Gideon's International organization distributes these Bibles for free in hotels and other locations around the world.
A basic Spanish Gideon bible just costs $5. All Gideon Bibles are $5.
New Testament
They printed there first Gideon bible in the year 1908.
The Bibles are given out by the Gideons.
It is not a usual practice for The Gideons to pass out Bibles to a Sunday School class.
The Gideon Bible is provided in hotels.
If you are looking for a bible, there are better places to look than Marriott hotels. The founder of the Marriott company, J. Willard Marriott, was a devout Mormon, and Marriott hotels are not the only places where you will not find bibles.
Gideon's color-code Bibles/New Testaments for proper distribution. Orange is for sidewalk distribution to High Schoolers. See link below:
Close to 1.7 billion have been distributed since 1908