While France produced the Bic 4 Color Pen, Japan's Pentel makes this Multi 8 mechanical pencil, which holds eight different leads.

Though it holds eight colors, the company sells 12 all told, if you want to swap out.

The design is quite clever. The clip is the indicator that you rotate onto the desired color in order to engage it.

Though the utensil was, by design, aimed at artists, designers and architects...

...the Multi 8 found an unexpected market: Religious readers. Thanks to (non-affiliated-with-Pentel) influencer videos, the Multi 8 has become popular for those studying and annotating scripture. Indeed, religious retailers specifically market the Multi 8 as a "Scripture Marker."

Pentel also makes a version with special leads "For Checking Use." That loses a little something in translation: This version is for editors and designers who need to mark up documents, where the marks won't be picked up by a copy machine or blueprint machine.