Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 39:1 | Now Ioseph was brought downe into Egypt: and Potiphar an Eunuche of Pharaohs (and his chiefe stewarde an Egyptian) bought him at the hande of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him thither. |
| 39:2 | And the Lord was with Ioseph, and he was a man that prospered and was in the house of his master the Egyptian. |
| 39:3 | And his master sawe that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that hee did to prosper in his hande. |
| 39:4 | So Ioseph founde fauour in his sight, and serued him: and he made him ruler of his house, and put all that he had in his hand. |
| 39:5 | And from that time that he had made him ruler ouer his house and ouer all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptians house for Iosephs sake: and the blessing of the Lord was vpon all that he had in the house, and in the fielde. |
| 39:6 | Therefore he left all that he had in Iosephs hand, and tooke accompt of nothing, that was with him, saue onely of the bread, which he did eate. And Ioseph was a faire person, and well fauoured. |
| 39:7 | Nowe therefore after these thinges, his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide, Lye with me. |
| 39:8 | But he refused and said to his masters wife, Beholde, my master knoweth not what he hath in the house with me, but hath committed all that he hath to mine hande. |
| 39:9 | There is no man greater in this house then I: neither hath he kept any thing from me, but only thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickednes and so sinne against God? |
| 39:10 | And albeit she spake to Ioseph day by day, yet he hearkened not vnto her, to lye with her, or to be in her company. |
| 39:11 | Then on a certaine day Ioseph entred into the house, to doe his businesse: and there was no man of the houshold in the house: |
| 39:12 | Therefore she caught him by his garmet, saying, Sleepe with me: but he left his garment in her hand and fled, and got him out. |
| 39:13 | Nowe when she sawe that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled out, |
| 39:14 | She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying, Beholde, he hath brought in an Ebrewe vnto vs to mocke vs: who came in to me for to haue slept with me: but I cryed with a loude voyce. |
| 39:15 | And when he heard that I lift vp my voice and cryed, he left his garment with me, and fled away, and got him out. |
| 39:16 | So she layde vp his garment by her, vntill her lord came home. |
| 39:17 | Then she tolde him according to these words, saying, The Ebrew seruat, which thou hast brought vnto vs, came in to me, to mocke me. |
| 39:18 | But assoone as I lift vp my voyce and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out. |
| 39:19 | Then when his master heard the wordes of his wife, which she tolde him, saying, After this maner did thy seruant to me, his anger was kindled. |
| 39:20 | And Iosephs master tooke him and put him in prison, in the place, where the kings prisoners lay bounde: and there he was in prison. |
| 39:21 | But the Lord was with Ioseph, and shewed him mercie, and got him fauour in the sight of the master of the prison. |
| 39:22 | And the keeper of the prison committed to Iosephs hande all the prisoners that were in the prison, and whatsoeuer they did there, that did he. |
| 39:23 | And the keeper of the prison looked vnto nothing that was vnder his hande, seeing that the Lord was with him: for whatsoeuer he did, the Lord made it to prosper. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.