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[[Category:Bible]][[Category:Christianity]][[Category:European History]][[Image:Geneva_Bible.jpg|thumb|350px|right|1599 Geneva Bible original frontispiece]]

[[Image:Geneva_Bible.jpg|thumb|350px|right|1599 Geneva Bible original frontispiece]]

The '''Geneva Bible''' was the first full-length [[Bible]] to be published in the [[English]] language. Its original compilers and publishers produced 144 separate editions between 1560 and 1644 AD, beyond which time King [[Charles I]] and [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop]] [[William Laud]] forbade its printing in [[England]].  The [[Geneva]] Bible was the first to divide chapters into verses.  It was the Geneva Bible (rather than the [[King James Bible]]) that was preferred by the [[Puritans]] who colonized [[New England]], and the [[Pilgrims]] probably brought the Geneva Bible with them on the [[Mayflower]].  One reason the Puritans preferred the Geneva Bible was due to its thorough annotations.

The '''Geneva Bible''' was the first full-length [[Bible]] to be published in the [[English]] language. Its original compilers and publishers produced 144 separate editions between 1560 and 1644 AD, beyond which time King [[Charles I]] and [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop]] [[William Laud]] forbade its printing in [[England]].  The [[Geneva]] Bible was the first to divide chapters into verses.  It was the Geneva Bible (rather than the [[King James Bible]]) that was preferred by the [[Puritans]] who colonized [[New England]], and the [[Pilgrims]] probably brought the Geneva Bible with them on the [[Mayflower]].  One reason the Puritans preferred the Geneva Bible was due to its thorough annotations.

* [[Biblical chronology dispute]]

* [[Biblical chronology dispute]]

[[Category:Bible Versions]]

[[Category:Bible Versions]]