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

[[Image:Geneva_Bible.jpg|thumb|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 translation of the [[Bible]] to be published in the [[English]] language. It sometimes called the "Bible of the Reformation." It was used by Shakespeare as well as the Puritians, including those on the Mayflower. One hundred forty four editions were printed between 1560 and 1644.

King James outlawed the '''Geneva Bible''',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XamSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment]</ref> which led to its virtual disappearance.<ref>[http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=10876 Kirk Cameron Endorses Geneva Bible]</ref> The Geneva Bible is now available in a hardcover edition published in 2006 by Tolle Lege Press.<ref name=Bible>Lillback, Peter A., DeMar, Gary D., Federer, William J., ''et al.'' ''1599 Geneva Bible: The Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old and New Testaments.'' White Hall, [[West Virginia|WV]], [[United States of America|USA]]: Tolle Lege Press, 2006. 1400 pp., cloth. ISBN 0975484699. Also available in black (ISBN 0975484613) and calfskin (ISBN 0975484621) leather-bound editions.</ref>

 

King James outlawed the Geneva Bible,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XamSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment]</ref> which led to its virtual disappearance.<ref>[http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=10876 Kirk Cameron Endorses Geneva Bible]</ref> The Geneva Bible is now available in a hardcover edition published in 2006 by Tolle Lege Press.<ref name=Bible>Lillback, Peter A., DeMar, Gary D., Federer, William J., ''et al.'' ''1599 Geneva Bible: The Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old and New Testaments.'' White Hall, [[West Virginia|WV]], [[United States of America|USA]]: Tolle Lege Press, 2006. 1400 pp., cloth. ISBN 0975484699. Also available in black (ISBN 0975484613) and calfskin (ISBN 0975484621) leather-bound editions.</ref>

== History ==

== History ==