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The Geneva Bible was made by English Protestants who had fled to Geneva in the reign of Mary I. William Whittingham led the work, with Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson and others; their New Testament appeared in 1557 and the whole Bible in 1560. It was the first complete English Bible with numbered verses, printed in roman type, and for two generations it was the Bible most read in English homes. Shakespeare quoted it, and the King James translators of 1611 drew on it throughout. Geneva Bibles dated 1599 were issued in London by the deputies of Christopher Barker (the date was later carried by reprints made abroad as well), and the 1599 Geneva is associated with Laurence Tomson's revised New Testament (1576) and Franciscus Junius's notes on Revelation.

This room holds all sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, every chapter and verse of the electronic text: 1,189 chapters and 31,090 verses. Its chapter and verse numbering is the Geneva numbering, which differs in places from later Bibles. The spelling is the original spelling ("vnto", "heauen", "Iesus") and has not been modernised or corrected. The text is the public-domain electronic edition distributed by eBible.org and credited by CrossWire to Mark Langley.

The famous Geneva marginal notes are not in this text. Nor are the book arguments, chapter summaries, prefatory matter or Apocrypha of the printed Bible; the electronic edition does not include them. The electronic text marks no illegible passages, and nothing has been supplied here. This is an archival transcription, not a Good Works Translation.

The Books

The Old Testament

The New Testament

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