An Illinois resident who files for bankruptcy doesn’t have to give up the family Bible to pay down debt, thanks to state law, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. That includes a first edition of the Book of Mormon from 1830 — possibly worth tens of thousands of dollars — that Anna Robinson has kept in a plastic bag. A federal judge ruled earlier this month that Robinson, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, doesn’t have to sell the book in order to pay the roughly $23,400 she owed to individuals and businesses when she filed for bankruptcy last year.
